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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:229
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Peter Goldstraw, FRCSa a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, Sydney St, London, England SW3 6NP, UK

e-mail: p.goldstraw@rbh.nthames.nhs.uk

Systematic nodal dissection (SND) has become standard practice when undertaking pulmonary resection for lung cancer with curative intent. It is accepted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) as an important step in the intrathoracic staging of lung cancer. In practice it has two component steps; the first to excise all mediastinal fat and the nodes contained therein, submitted for histological analysis labeled in accordance with an internationally accepted nodal chart, and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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