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Resection margins, extrapleural nodal status, and cell type determine postoperative long-term survival in trimodality therapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma: Results in 183 patients

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 1999 · Vol. 117(1) · pp. 54–65

David J. Sugarbaker✉(Brigham and Women's Hospital)Raja M. Flores(Brigham and Women's Hospital)Michael T. Jaklitsch(Brigham and Women's Hospital)William G. Richards(Brigham and Women's Hospital)Gary M. Strauss(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)Joseph M. Corson(Harvard University)Malcolm M. DeCamp(Brigham and Women's Hospital)Steven Swanson(Harvard University)Raphael Bueno(Harvard University)Jeanne M. Lukanich(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)Elizabeth H. Baldini(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)Steven J. Mentzer(Harvard University)

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Occupational and environmental lung diseases Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases Soft tissue tumor case studiesMedicineExtrapleural PneumonectomySurgeryMesotheliomaUnivariate analysisProportional hazards modelRadiation therapySurvival analysisPerioperativePleural disease

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AdultAgedFemaleHumansLymphatic MetastasisMaleMesotheliomaMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingPleural NeoplasmsPneumonectomyPrognosisRetrospective StudiesProportional Hazards ModelsSurvival Analysis

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