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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik, The University of Heidelberg, Amalienstrasse 5, Heidelberg, D-69126 Germany

(Email: hans.hoffmann@urz.uni-heidelberg.de).

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The authors retrospectively analyzed a case series of 159 sleeve resections for non-small cell cancer (NSCLC) performed in a single institution during a 21-year time period [1]. The report includes patients that underwent sleeve lobectomy with and without prior neoadjuvant (induction) chemotherapy. Their findings indicate that induction chemotherapy does not affect postoperative complications, and that good long-term outcomes were obtained after bronchial sleeve resection for lung cancer.

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