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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:234-235
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited commentary

Joachim Pfannschmidt, MD

Department of Surgery, Thoraxklinik am Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Amalienstr 5, Heidelberg, 69126 Germany

(Email: joachim.pfannschmidt@thoraxklinik-heidelberg.de).

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The article by de Pas and colleagues [1] describes the management of stage IV lung cancer with a solitary metastasis in the positron-emission tomographic scan era. Previous studies have reported that whole-body positron-emission tomography (PET) for lung cancer staging detected occult distal metastases in 6% to 17% of patients for whom conventional clinical methods failed to identify [2, 3]. Indeed the incidence of patients with synchronous solitary metastatic deposits evaluated by conventional work-up and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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