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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:2197-2198
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Pulmonary Function May Be Prognostic But Should Not Preclude Lobectomy for Lung Cancer

C.S. Pramesh, MS, FRCS, Rajesh C. Mistry, MS, Jaiprakash Agarwal, MD, K. Arvind, MS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Radiotherapy, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400012, India

(E-mail: cspramesh@vsnl.net).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

Iizasa and colleagues [1] are to be commended on an excellent study of preoperative pulmonary function as a prognostic factor for long-term survival after surgery for nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Preoperative and predicted postoperative lung volumes have been extensively used in predicting immediate postoperative complications and respiratory insufficiency, but considering it as a prognosticator of long-term outcomes injects fresh thought into the subject. It . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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