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Volume 111, Issue 6, June 1997, Pages 1718-1723
Special ReportsRegional Lymph Node Classification for Lung Cancer Staging
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Lymph Node Mapping
The recommendations for classifying regional lymph nodes for lung cancer staging are shown in Figure 1 with accompanying definitions in Table 1. This schema was adopted by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and the Prognostic Factors TNM Committee of the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer at the 1996 annual meetings of each of these organizations (see Appendix for participants and organizational representation). The diagram and definitions unify in a single system the features of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors wish to acknowledge the contribution of Kay E. Hermes to the research and writing of this report.
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