Lung Cancer
Volume 64, Issue 2 , Pages 148-154 , May 2009

Solitary and multiple resected adenocarcinomas after CT screening for lung cancer: Histopathologic features and their prognostic implications

  • Madeline Vazquez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Darryl Carter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • ,
  • Elizabeth Brambilla

      Affiliations

    • 3-Inserm, U823; University Grenoble, CHRU Grenoble, Hospital Michallon, Department of Pathology, 38000 Grenoble, France
    • ,
  • Adi Gazdar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
    • ,
  • Masayuki Noguchi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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  • William D. Travis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
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  • Yao Huang

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Hospital (Institute), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical University, Beijing, PR China
    • ,
  • Lijuan Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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  • Rowena Yip

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
    • ,
  • David F. Yankelevitz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Claudia I. Henschke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Radiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065, United States. Tel.: +1 212 746 2529; fax: +1 212 746 2811.
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  • The International Early Lung Cancer Action Program Investigators

Received 25 February 2008 ,Revised 28 July 2008 ,Accepted 2 August 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2008.08.009

Lung Cancer
Volume 64, Issue 2 , Pages 148-154 , May 2009

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