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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;31:142-143. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.10.011
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Letters to the Editor

Is radical mediastinal dissection mandatory for curative resection of NSCLC?

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK

Received 23 August 2006; accepted 12 October 2006.

^_* Corresponding author. Fax: +44 207 351 8560 (Email: p.goldstraw@rbht.nhs.uk).

Key Words: Lung cancer • Resection • Lymph node dissection • Systematic nodal dissection • Intrathoracic staging

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We read with interest the article by Massard et al. [1] comparing nodal ‘sampling’ and ‘formal nodal dissection’ sequentially at thoracotomy, in which they found that sampling underestimated mediastinal nodal involvement that would have lead to inaccurate staging and more incomplete resections had nodal dissection not been performed. However, to fully understand the significance of their findings it would be helpful to clarify the definitions of each of these terms, to be given more details of the protocol and to be provided with more raw data.

‘Sampling’ may refer to the removal of part of one node, removal of one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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