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

Received 2 May 2008 ,Revised 18 August 2008 ,Accepted 19 September 2008.

 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