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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited commentary

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, 849 S Wood St, Suite 417 (M/C 958), Chicago, IL 60612-7322

(Email: nsnow@uic.edu).

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This article [1] illustrates two important principles of the peer review system used by serious, reputable surgical journals as well as others.

The first is that the observations and caveats of the editorial advisors often prompt a serious reappraisal and revision of the wording, and therefore the intended message of the article. This series of 4 patients is useful for stimulating our approach to this rare disease, but we must be cautious that a few cases may be lacking sufficient data so as not to render expansive conclusions inappropriately. Changing operative approaches . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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