Tumor cells are dislodged into the pulmonary vein during lobectomy

Objective Intraoperative tumor shedding may facilitate tumor dissemination. In earlier studies, shed tumor cells were defined primarily by cytomorphological examination, and normal epithelial cells could not always be distinguished from tumor cells. We sought to accurately identify tumor cells using...

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Main Authors: Yao, Xiaosai (Contributor), Williamson, Christina (Author), D'Agostino, Richard S. (Author), Fitton, Torin (Author), Smaroff, Gregory G. (Author), Wittrup, Karl Dane (Contributor), Williams, Robert T. (Author), Love, John C (Author), Adalsteinsson, Viktor A. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Adalsteinsson, Viktor Arnarson (Contributor), William, Robert T. (Contributor), Love, J. Christopher (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2016-02-19T02:33:10Z.
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