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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:1037-1038
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original articles: general thoracic

Invited commentary

John A Odell, MD

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, 4500 San Pablo Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32224 , USA

e-mail: odell.john@mayo.edu

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The authors have taken an opposite tack to the usual method of defining lymph nodes on computed tomography (CT). They have instead used a contrast agent to delineate the draining lymph nodes of presumed lung cancer, rather than silhouetting the nodes against the contrasted vascular tree of the lung and mediastinum. The depiction is a CT one and requires careful timing with the maximal attenuation occurring one minute after injection into the peripheral lung nodule. The study is helpful in that the surgeon may be directed to the site of lymph nodes, but does not indicate . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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