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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:392-393
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Harvey I. Pass, MDa

a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Harper Hospital, Suite 2102, Harper Professional Building, 3990 John R, Detroit, MI 48201, USA

e-mail: hpass@dmc.org

The article by Kodama and associates should be regarded as a ground breaking contribution to the study of the natural history of early lung cancer. The pure ground glass opacity (PGGO) is a wispy, diagnostically frustrating pulmonary "infiltrate" which is being detected with increasing frequency as the size of the pixels necessary for computerized tomographic resolution decreases. Presently, the management of the PGGO is more controversial than the management of the "mixed GGO" whose solid component is invariably found to have an adenocarcinoma/bronchoalveolar element. The unknown natural history of the PGGO is addressed in a subset of 19 PGGOs from . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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