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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;121:1225-1226
© 2001 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

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Kohei Yokoi, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery
Tochigi Cancer Center
4-9-13 Yohnan, Utsunomiya
Tochigi 320-0834, Japan

Reply to the Editor:

I thank Riquet and Lang-Lazdunski for their comments on our article concerning surgical treatment of lung cancer involving the diaphragm.Go 1 Riquet and associatesGo 2 also recently published an article concerning the same issue, and I recognize slight differences between results of these studies. That is, although we documented that N stage and the depth of diaphragmatic invasion influenced the outcome of patients with complete resection on the basis of a univariate analysis,Go 1 they reported that those two characteristics were not prognostic factors.Go 2

In both studies,Go Go 1,2 there were no statistically significant differences between patients with complete resection with respect to pN status ({chi}2 test, P = .177). However, 41 of our . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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