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Lung Cancer: Considerations Related to Gross Anatomy

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Lung Cancer

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The objective of this section is to describe anatomic features of particular relevance to the natural history of carcinoma of the lung and to its clinical management. A strict criterion of relevance makes this review highly selective. Readers who wish a comprehensive treatment of thoracic anatomy as such or as a guide to technical aspects of surgical resection or radiation therapy are referred elsewhere.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA

    Stephen K. Plume M.D.

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  1. Department of Radiation, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, NC, 27103, USA

    Charles W. Scarantino Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Professor and Chairman) (Associate Professor, Professor and Chairman)

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Plume, S.K. (1985). Lung Cancer: Considerations Related to Gross Anatomy. In: Scarantino, C.W. (eds) Lung Cancer. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82234-6_3

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