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 usin...

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Main Authors: Yao, Xiaosai, Williamson, Christina, D'Agostino, Richard S., Fitton, Torin, Smaroff, Gregory G., Wittrup, Karl Dane, Williams, Robert T., Love, John C, Adalsteinsson, Viktor A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101220
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4555-2485
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2398-5896
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0921-3144