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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;61:1069
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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See also page 1066.

DR NORMAN J. SNOW (Cleveland, OH): I have a question for you. Of the 12 patients in whom you converted to a thoracotomy, how many had standard clinical indicators that this lesion was most likely malignant and therefore you might have obviated the time and expense of thoracoscopy to begin with by proceding directly to thoracotomy?

DR KRASNA: I cannot give you an exact number, but all of these patients had lesions that were smaller than 2 cm. At our institution we routinely perform preoperative percutaneous needle biopsy to obtain a tissue diagnosis . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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