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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:1837-1838
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original article: General thoracic

Invited commentary

Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FECTS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Via Semmola 81, 80131 Naples, Italy

(Email: gaetano.rocco@btopenworld.com).

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The article by Licker and colleagues [1] describes the evolution of the surgical management of lung cancer in the perennial search of the functional Holy Graal (ie, the single preoperative predictor of mortality and severe morbidity after pulmonary surgery). Indeed, the results of this rigorous observational study are important not so much for the emphasis on the predictive value of the 60% preoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) cut-off but rather for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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