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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:215
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Jeffrey L. Port, MD, David F. Yankelevitz, MD, Nasser K. Altorki, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

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Reply to the Editor:

We thank Drs Khandani and Detterbeck for their insightful comments on our article. Its main conclusion was that standard uptake values (SUVs) obtained from positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging were not useful for staging lung cancers smaller than 2 cm. We note that there was no disagreement with that conclusion, but rather the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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