Patient 1 is a 48-year-old Native American woman with no significant past medical history who presented to her primary care physician in May 2003 with decreased appetite, postprandial abdominal ...

Therefore, cervical mediastinoscopy to exclude stage IIIb (N3) disease is an important part of the staging for left lower lobe NSCLC. Left upper lobe NSCLC has a different pattern of lymphatic ...

Chest x-ray of a 63-year-old woman showed a 3.4-cm mass in the periphery of the RUL. CT scan showed no disease in the mediastinum, but PET scan showed nodal involvement. What would you suggest?

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