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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;60:1352
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR THOMAS M. EGAN (Chapel Hill, NC): I really enjoyed your presentation, and I think the data are very interesting. Did you have enough benign lesions to look at the gradation in benign lesions, that is, which benign lesions were more likely to have a higher SUR versus a lower SUR? One of the problems that we frequently encounter in trying to establish a malignant diagnosis of a cavitary lesion, for example, is that you may just get necrotic tissue back on a needle, and sometimes these turn out to be infectious processes.

DR DUHAYLONGSOD: That is a good question. No, we have not looked at enough benign lesions, but there are certain things that I . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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