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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;27:731
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Chest wall resection in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Division of Thoracic Surgery and Radiotherapy, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India

Received 20 December 2004; accepted 10 January 2005.

^* Corresponding author. Address: Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400 012, India. Tel.: +91 22 24177000; fax: +91 22 24146937. (E-mail: cspramesh@vsnl.net).

Key Words: Non-small cell lung cancer • Chest wall resection • Survival • Prognosis

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We read with interest Matsuoka and colleagues’ article [1] on chest wall resection for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and their analysis of prognostic factors. We agree with their conclusions that completeness of resection and mediastinal nodal status are the most important prognostic factors in patients with chest wall invasion. Whether to do an extrapleural excision or en . . . [Full Text of this Article]