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Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Old Dalkeith Rd, Edinburgh EH 16 4SA, United Kingdom
(Email: rizwanqureshi2@aol.com).
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To the Editor:
We read with interest the study by Kreider and colleagues [1], which emphasizes that video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for lung biopsy is not without risk.
The efficacy of VATS for lung biopsy has been previously determined [2–4]. The VATS procedure is more aesthetic, less painful, cost effective,
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