The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 6 , Pages 1441-1446 , June 2010

Impact of positive pleural lavage cytology on survival in patients having lung resection for non–small-cell lung cancer: An international individual patient data meta-analysis

  • International Pleural Lavage Cytology Collaborators

      Affiliations

    • Authors: Eric Lim, Rachel Clough, Peter Goldstraw (The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom); Lyn Edmonds (Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom); Keiju Aokage, Junji Yoshida, Kanji Nagai (National Cancer Centre East, Chiba, Japan); Yasushi Shintani, Mitsunori Ohta, Meinoshin Okumura, Teruo Iwasaki, Tsutomu Yasumitsu (Osaka Prefectural Medical Center for Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Osaka, Japan); Morihito Okada, Takeshi Mimura, Noriaki Tsubota (Hyogo Cancer Centre, Akashi, Japan); Tatsuo Nakagawa, Norihito Okumura (Kurashiki Central Hospital, Okayama, Japan); Yukitoshi Satoh, Sakae Okumura, Ken Nakagawa (Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo Japan); Masahiko Higashiyama, Ken Kodama (Osaka Medical Centre for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan); Marc Riquet (Hopital European Georges Pompidou, Paris, France); Giovanni Vicidomini, Mario Santini (Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy); Christophoros Kotoulas (Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece); Jeng-Yuan Hsu, Chih-Yi Chen (Taiching Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan).

Received 3 November 2008 ,Revised 24 April 2009 ,Accepted 16 May 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

 Address for reprints: Eric Lim, MB, ChB, MD, MSc, FRCS(C-Th), Imperial College and The Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, United Kingdom (E-mail: e.lim@rbht.nhs.uk).

PII: S0022-5223(09)01151-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.05.048

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 6 , Pages 1441-1446 , June 2010

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