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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited Commentary

Department of Surgery (112), Buffalo VAMC, 3495 Bailey Ave, Buffalo, NY 14215

(Email: eddie.hoover@med.va.gov).

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The question posed by Riquet and colleagues [1] and the basis for this article was the role of surgical intervention in patients with isolated, intrathoracic hilar/mediastinal lymph node metastases from extrathoracic malignancies. Of 565 such patients reviewed, 37 had a history of extrathoracic malignancies, and 11 were excluded when a biopsy specimen showed unrelated pathology. Of the remaining 26 patients, operations were done for diagnostic purposes in 15 patients who had breast, prostate, kidney, and laryngeal cancers, and melanoma. That left 11 patients with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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