Mediastinal Staging for Lung Cancer
- related: lung cancer
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- PET and CT have 10% false positive and almost 40% false negative.
- Indication for mediastinal staging differ by society but generally have following:
- tumor > 3 cm
- lymph node > 1 cm
- central tumors
- lymph nodes with positive PET
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Farjah F, Tanner NT. Mediastinal Staging for Lung Cancer. Chest. 2021;160(4):1552-1559. doi:10.1016/j.chest.2021.05.009. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34029567/. ↩