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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
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 Illustrations and Imaging
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T3

Fig. 10: T3: A tumor of any size with direct extension into the (a) chest wall, including (b) superior sulcus tumors, or the diaphragm, mediastinal pleura or pericardium, without involving the heart, great vessels, trachea, esophagus or vertebral body, or a tumor in the main bronchus within 2 cm of the carina without involving the carina.

Limited, circumscribed, extrapulmonary extension of the primary tumor is designated T3.

Fig. 11: Computed tomographic scan of the chest showing superior sulcus tumor in the right apex with no evidence of vertebral body invasion, T3.

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