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LUNG CANCER
A Handbook for Staging, Imaging, and Lymph Node Classification
by Clifton F. Mountain, MD; Herman I. Libshitz, MD; and Kay E. Hermes
Contents | About the Author(s) | Dedication and Acknowledgment
 Illustrations and Imaging
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Stage IIIA

Fig. 42: Diagram, stage IIIA. Stage IIIA disease includes tumors with localized, circumscribed extrapulmonary extension and ipsilateral intrapulmonary (including hilar) lymph node metastasis, the T3 N1 M0 subset, and T1, T2, and T3 tumors with metastasis limited to the ipsilateral mediastinal and subcarinal lymph nodes, the T1 N2 M0, T2 N2 M0, T3 N2 M0 subsets.

Fig. 43: Computed tomographic scan of bronchogenic carcinoma involving the anterior chest wall. The medial pleura was not involved. Metastatic disease was present in a normal sized left hilar lymph node, T3 N1 M0, stage IIIA disease.

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