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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:1196
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Difficulty of early diagnosis in patients with solitary pulmonary nodule

D. Sortini, MD, K. Maravegias, MD, A. Sortini, MD

Department of Surgical, Radiologic, and Anesthesiologic Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

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To the Editor:

We would like to express our opinion about the article by Crestanello and associates.1 First, we congratulate them for the well-performed study contributing to the early diagnosis of lung cancer. Because an early diagnosis is likely to lead to better survival, it is necessary to find a useful, easy, low-cost method to obtain better survival in patients with non–small cell lung cancer. But the results of this study seem to indicate that low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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