TY - GEN AU - Farjah,Farhood AU - Flum,David R AU - Ramsey,Scott D AU - Heagerty,Patrick J AU - Symons,Rebecca Gaston AU - Wood,Douglas E TI - Multi-modality mediastinal staging for lung cancer among medicare beneficiaries SN - 1556-1380 PY - 2009///0616 KW - Aged KW - Aged, 80 and over KW - Analysis of Variance KW - Biopsy, Needle KW - Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung KW - mortality KW - Carcinoma, Small Cell KW - Cohort Studies KW - Confidence Intervals KW - Diagnostic Imaging KW - methods KW - Endosonography KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Immunohistochemistry KW - Lung Neoplasms KW - Male KW - Mediastinoscopy KW - Medicare KW - Multivariate Analysis KW - Neoplasm Invasiveness KW - pathology KW - Neoplasm Staging KW - Positron-Emission Tomography KW - Prognosis KW - Registries KW - Retrospective Studies KW - Risk Factors KW - SEER Program KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - Survival Analysis KW - Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted KW - Tomography, X-Ray Computed KW - United States N1 - Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural UR - https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0b013e318197f4d9 ER -