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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;25:471
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Visceral pleura invasion and lung cancer: further clarifications

Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Laboratoire d'Anatomie Pathologique Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France

Received 27 July 2003; accepted 12 December 2003.

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e-mail: marc.riquet@hop.egp.ap.hop-paris.fr

Key Words: Visceral pleura • Non-small cell lung cancer • Prognostic factor

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Kang et al. [1] reported that visceral pleura invasion (VPI) was a factor of poor prognosis in T2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In a previous study [2], we already stressed the poor prognosis of VPI which we also found correlated with more extensive mediastinal lymph node (LN) involvement and decreased survival rates. Contrary to these authors, we observed VPI to be more frequent in case of non-squamous carcinoma (and of adenosquamous carcinoma which others also underline [3]) and in tumours larger than 5 cm. Concerning this latter point there is an unclear area in their paper. In the . . . [Full Text of this Article]