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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:1762
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Hajime Saito, MD, Yoshihiro Minamiya, MD, Jun-ichi Ogawa, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita City, 010-8543, Japan

e-mail: hsaito@doc.med.akita-u.ac.jp

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In this article, Daniel and colleagues describe preoperative CT guided radiotracer localization of small pulmonary nodules using 99mTc MAA prior to thoracoscopic wedge resection. The common preoperative marking methods—hookwire placement or methylene blue dye injection—are generally good but not without failures or complications. Hookwire displacement or inability to recognize methylene blue dye on the pleural surface are responsible for considering conversion to open surgery. Radioguided searching allowed detection of all injected . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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