Pulmonary metastasis resection: is it a question of optimal timing or tumor doubling time?
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Pulmonary metastasis resection: is it a question of optimal timing or tumor doubling time?
The recent article titled ‘The optimal timing to resect pulmonary metastasis’ [1] arouses some questions. Management of pulmonary metastasis (PM) is certainly challenging and I agree with authors that standardization is needed for surgical indications. In a multivariate analysis, the interval from PM detection to resection, and the interval from PM resection until recurrence were significant in...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1010-7940
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.08.022