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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:2338-2339
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Should Pleural Fluid Cytology Be Incorporated in the TNM Staging System for Operable Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer?

C.S. Pramesh, MS, FRCS, Rajesh C. Mistry, MS, Jaiprakash Agarwal, MD, Ramesh Bishnoi, MS

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

(Email: cspramesh@vsnl.net).

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To the Editor:

We commend Enatsu and colleagues [1] on their large study demonstrating the prognostic importance of preoperative and postoperative pleural lavage cytology (PLC) in operable nonsmall cell lung cancers (NSCLCs). Prospective evaluations of almost 1,200 patients for 10 years at a single institution are a massive exercise, and the authors deserve to be congratulated on their perseverance. Although there have been previous studies [2, 3] with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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