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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:1714-1715
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original articles: General thoracic: Invited commentary

INVITED COMMENTARY

Peter Goldstraw, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney St, London, SW3 6NP United Kingdom

(E-mail: p.goldstraw@rbh.nthames.nhs.uk).

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Tanaka and colleagues [1] report their experience in the diagnosis and treatment of 52 patients with a previous history of breast cancer found to have pulmonary nodules during a 10-year period. Clearly this is a highly selected subset of breast cancer patients referred to a thoracic department, in part because of the highly unusual pattern of the apparent relapse.

The authors reiterate the lessons learned in the pre-computed tomographic era of the early 1970s [2]. Such nodules may be metastatic from breast, new primary lung cancers, or . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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