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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;67:907
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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John R. Benfield, MDa

a University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA

Invited commentary

This retrospective analysis of 123 patients representing about 6% of a 16-year experience is noteworthy because all patients had negative mediastinoscopy. Thus, preoperative staging was more uniform and more complete than it is in most reports.

It is no surprise that the type of lymph node involvement did not relate to survival, that the survival of patients with cancers extending . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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