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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;23:256
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Intrathoracic staging of non small cell lung cancer with mediastinal involvement: still a moonless foggy night?

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, Catholic University, Largo A. Gemelli 1, 00168 Rome, Italy

Received 1 October 2002; received in revised form 4 November 2002; accepted 4 November 2002.

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e-mail: alfcesario@yahoo.com

Key Words: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy • Chemoradiotherapy • Mediastinoscopy

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In the year 2001, following an interesting comment by Daniels et al. [1] we have discussed the issue of routine mediastinoscopy in the intrathoracic clinical staging of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in opposition with those colleagues who suggested that mediastinoscopy should be performed in every case of NSCLC patients where surgery was indicated [2]. Put briefly, we objected that routinely adopting mediastinoscopy represented a compromise and that it should be reserved to those patients who, upon a CT scan suspect of mediastinal (N2) . . . [Full Text of this Article]