TY - JOUR T1 - Mediastinal staging by videomediastinoscopy in clinical N1 non-small cell lung cancer JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 342 LP - 344 DO - 10.1183/20734735.027118 VL - 14 IS - 4 AU - Clementine Bostantzoglou AU - Marianthi Iliopoulou AU - Georgia Hardavella Y1 - 2018/12/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/14/4/342.abstract N2 - Lung cancer is the number one cause of death due to cancer worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, it accounted for 1.69 million new cases in 2015, whereas in Europe, 20.8% of all deaths due to cancer (>266 000 cases) were attributable to lung cancer in 2011 [1, 2].VAM(LA) has adequate sensitivity to be considered as the approach of choice for preoperative mediastinal staging in the subgroup of early-stage operable NSCLC patients http://ow.ly/42Wn30m78Zw ER -