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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited Commentary

Department of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital of St. Raphael, 330 Orchard St, Suite 300, New Haven, CT 06511

(Email: tfabian1@srhs.org).

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In this article, De Cicco and associates [1] retrospectively evaluated 42 patients who underwent surgical resection for benign hamartomas of the lung. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) in solitary lung nodules identified by CT scans, and whether this information could obviate the need for surgical resection in future patients. This subject is timely in nature with the increased access and use of CT scans and the present worldwide interest in lung cancer screening protocols. Pulmonary hamartomas are the most common benign tumor of . . . [Full Text of this Article]