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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125:25-26
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Editorials

The solitary pulmonary nodule: Can we afford to watch and wait?

From the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Received for publication Oct 10, 2001. Accepted for publication Oct 12, 2001. Address for reprints: Robert J. Ginsberg, MD, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, EN 10-226, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada.

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In this issue Quarterman and associates ¹ address an issue that continues to plague thoracic surgeons. In patients with solitary pulmonary nodules, is it best, as some authors advocate, to excise each and every one of them for diagnosis or can one be selective in proposing excisional therapy to provide a diagnosis? There are many diagnostic options when one encounters such a patient. Imaging techniques, including review of previous radiographs, might allow one to determine conclusively that the lesion in question is benign. For those lesions larger than 1 cm, the use of positron emission tomographic scanning or less invasive transthoracic or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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