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Letters to the Editor

Reply to Kamiyoshihara and Ibe

Department of Cancer and Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Received 25 March 2008; accepted 26 March 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Address: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki City, Okayama 701-0192, Japan. Tel.: +81 86 462 1111; fax: +81 86 464 1189. (Email: yhirami@med.kawasaki-m.ac.jp).

Key Words: Bronchopleural fistula • Lymphadenectomy • Electric scalpel

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Thank you for your interest in our article [1].

We think that the authors principally have agreed with the essential content of our article, and that the purpose of their letter is to kindly refer to minor details to clarify our description.

In response to the first question, we perform lymphadenectomy using an electric scalpel by cauterizing and cutting the . . . [Full Text of this Article]