Lung Cancer
Volume 70, Issue 2 , Pages 158-162 , November 2010

Surgical treatment of bronchial carcinoid tumors: A single-center experience

Received 23 August 2009 ,Revised 19 January 2010 ,Accepted 20 January 2010.

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 This work was presented at the XVI Congress of the Brazilian Society of Thoracic Surgery, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.

PII: S0169-5002(10)00056-5

doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2010.01.015

Lung Cancer
Volume 70, Issue 2 , Pages 158-162 , November 2010