Routine preoperative brain CT in resectable non-small cell lung cancer – Ten years experience from a tertiary UK thoracic center

•2% of patients with NSCLC have brain metastases on brain CT at staging.•the majority of these metastases are asymptomatic and would be undetected.•brain CT can be useful in routine staging of non-small cell lung cancer. Although detection of brain metastasis can change treatment intent in non-small...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Netherlands), 2018-08, Vol.122, p.195-199
Hauptverfasser:	Matys, Tomasz, Drury, Rosalyn, David, Sarojini, Rassl, Doris M., Qian, Wendi, Rintoul, Robert C., Screaton, Nicholas J.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Brain metastasis Computed tomography Non-small cell lung carcinoma Staging
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