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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:395. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.05.067
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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited Commentary

Michael J. Liptay, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Suite 774, 1725 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60612-3824

(Email: michael_liptay@rush.edu).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

Malignant pleural mesothelioma is an aggressive diffuse spreading tumor that has a generally poor outlook with mean survivals of less than 2 years regardless of treatment approach. These authors [1] examined the pattern of lymph node metastases in their series from the National Cancer Institute of Cairo, Egypt.

Lymph node metastases were originally shown to be a bad prognostic factor in mesothelioma by Sugarbaker and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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