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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:1182
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Does an Anecdote Substantiate Dogma?

Frank C. Detterbeck, MD

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Yale University, FMB 128, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520-8062

(Email: frank.detterbeck@yale.edu).

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To the Editor:

I read with interest the report by Dr Kattach and colleagues [1] of recurrence of a thymoma in a needle tract. This is of interest because many standard texts continue to carry forward the dogma that thymomas should not be biopsied because of a propensity for seeding of the needle tract, a concept that was put forward nearly 40 years ago [2]. Furthermore, the need to biopsy a thymoma is greater today given the increasing data that preoperative chemotherapy is beneficial for stage II and II thymomas [3, 4]. In the past, there was little need to pursue biopsy . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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