Pathological assessment of mediastinal lymph nodes in lung cancer: implications for non-invasive mediastinal staging.

Abstract

The study shows that in patients with lung cancer (1) malignant mediastinal lymph nodes are not larger than benign nodes; (2) small mediastinal lymph nodes are not infrequently malignant; and (3) benign adenopathy is more common in patients with acute pulmonary inflammation.