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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:1723-1724. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.017
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Can Computed Tomography Guide the Extent of Surgery in Early, Resectable Lung Cancer?

C.S. Pramesh, MS, FRCSa, Rajesh C. Mistry, MSa, Nilendu Purandare, MDb, Jai Prakash Agarwal, MDc

a Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, 400012 India
b Department of Bioimaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, 400012 India
c Department of Radiotherapy, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, 400012 India

(Email: cspramesh@vsnl.net).

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To the Editor:

We read with interest Nakayama and colleagues' [1] article on patient outcome after sublobar resections for tumors sized less than 2 cm. The process of calculating a tumor shadow disappearance rate was used to identify patients who would have prolonged survival even with sublobar resections. The authors advocate classifying tumors as "air-containing type" and "solid-density type" on the basis of a tumor shadow disappearance rate of less or more than 50%, respectively. We believe that there are two important reasons to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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