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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:260-261
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Prognostic significance of visceral pleural invasion and tumor size in non–small cell lung cancer

Jung-Jyh Hung, MDa,b, Jung-Sen Liu, MD, PhDa, Wen-Hu Hsu, MDb

a Cathay General Hospital and Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan
b Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article by Shimizu and colleagues1Go published in the July 2005 issue of the Journal. They found that visceral pleural invasion (VPI) is a significant poor prognostic factor of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), regardless of N status. Stage I NSCLC has been subdivided into IA (T1N0M0) and IB (T2N0M0) based on tumor size (3 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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