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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:248-249
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

^a Division of Thoracic Surgery, Saiseikai Central Hospital, 4-17, Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073, Japan

e-mail: naruke@oak.ocn.ne.jp

Precise lymph node staging in lung cancer management is imperative for developing new treatment strategies.

Doctor Watanabe and colleagues point out the fact that designation of the sites of lymph nodes in Europe and the US, which are expressed by the stations in the lymph node map, could differ by doctors. Regarding lymph nodes in 41 cases of operations for lung cancer, two surgeons (the degree of their knowledge of mapping is unknown, one was trained in Japan and the other was trained in the United Kingdom) assess the difference between each other’s result by having a fixed station number. Presently, a number of variations of the lymph node map can be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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