The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 135, Issue 2 , Pages 261-268 , February 2008

Is palpation of the nonresected pulmonary lobe(s) required for patients with non–small cell lung cancer? A prospective study

  • Robert James Cerfolio, MD, FACS, FCCP

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, Professor of Surgery, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 703 19th St S, ZRB 739, Birmingham, AL 35294.
    • Professor of Surgery, Chief of Section of Thoracic Surgery at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery.
    • ,
  • Ayesha S. Bryant, MSPH, MD

      Affiliations

    • Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health; Clinical Researcher, Division of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery.

Received 3 May 2007 ,Revised 6 August 2007 ,Accepted 16 August 2007.

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 Read at the Eighty-seventh Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Washington, DC, May 5–9, 2007.

PII: S0022-5223(07)01743-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.08.062

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 135, Issue 2 , Pages 261-268 , February 2008

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