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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:1033
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original article: General thoracic

Invited commentary

Tatsuo Fukuse, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507 Japan

(Email: thoracic@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp).

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This study [1] was prospectively designed to evaluate the possibility of lesser mediastinal dissection for early-stage nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The authors concluded that selective mediastinal dissection for early stage NSCLC achieved comparable efficacy compared with a complete dissection. "Recently, minimally invasive surgery for NSCLC, such as video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has become of interest. For this reason, this study is particularly interesting, although it is not a randomized control study. However, as . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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