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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited Commentary

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 19638, 800 N Rutledge, Room D319, Springfield, IL 62794

(Email: shazelrigg@siumed.edu).

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This article [1] is valuable because it compiles a relatively large series of patients with lung metastases (when one considers it is limited to only sarcomas and patients with two or less peripheral metastases). Although this represents important information, I would submit that the numbers are still too small to draw any firm conclusions with regard to survival data.

The entire subject of resection of pulmonary metastases has been frequently debated. Dr Gossot and colleagues [1] have attempted to address the debate of video-assisted thoracoscopic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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