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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:2337
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Staging in Malignant Mesothelioma

Yossef Aelony, MD, FACP

Harbor-UCLA

(Email: y.aelony@cox.net).

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To the Editor:

The article by Rice and colleagues [1] is an important study that correctly steers attempts at "curative resection" of malignant mesothelioma to those patients with very limited, locoregional disease by using laparoscopy, cervical mediastinoscopy, and peritoneal lavage to rule out more advanced disease. Their large database helps us understand the tumor burden at the time of presentation of this very aggressive neoplasm. Hopefully the comments that follow and the responses to my questions may further strengthen this important contribution.

Although we hope to cure pleural mesotheliomas in the future, it has not happened yet. The statement that "occasional . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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