Hong Kong Respiratory Medicine

Hedy Lee Kindler. The Lancet Oncology, Early Online Publication, 1 July 2011 doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70179-6
There are few subjects more controversial among physicians who treat pleural mesothelioma than the role of surgery. Not only are there diverse opinions about the optimum surgical procedure, there is also fundamental disagreement about whether surgery has any place in the management of this disease.

Most thoracic surgeons would agree, however, that for virtually all mesothelioma patients, a truly complete resection is not possible. Neither an extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) nor a radical pleurec ...

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