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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:1075
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

^a Chief of Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 North Calvert St, Suite 610, Baltimore, MD 21218-2898, USA email: richardhe@helix.org

The paper by Watanabe and colleagues reflects an interesting and important trend in the surgical management of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The evolution of the surgical management of patients with NSCLC is well known. Pneumonectomy, introduced in 1933, was displaced by lobectomy approximately a decade later. Lobectomy, it was shown, yielded cancer survival results equal to pneumonectomy with considerably less morbidity and mortality. Since that time, lobectomy has withstood challenges from open and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) segmental and wedge resections, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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