The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 137, Issue 1 , Pages 13-19, January 2009

POINT: Clinical stage IA non–small cell lung cancer determined by computed tomography and positron emission tomography is frequently not pathologic IA non–small cell lung cancer: The problem of understaging

Division of Thoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Received 2 May 2008; received in revised form 18 August 2008; accepted 19 September 2008.

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 This paper was presented at the 2008 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) meeting in the point-counterpoint session.

PII: S0022-5223(08)01637-1

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.09.045

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 137, Issue 1 , Pages 13-19, January 2009