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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 10th Ave, 4th Floor Admin Bldg, Brooklyn, NY 11219

(Email: jlocicero@maimonidesmed.org).

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Lagarde and colleagues [1] relate a number of preoperative esophagectomy variables to morbidity and mortality. They chose three different types of variables: (1) "general" factors, (2) function tests, and (3) therapy-related predictors. The general factors include some disease states, such as cardiac disease defined by electrocardiographic abnormalities; some past events, such as previous myocardial infarction or stroke; and demographic variables, such as age.

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