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During operations a wide resection around the wire was performed, followed by mammographic confirmation of complete resection of the tumors.
In total, this patient had two clinical specimens available for analysis: tumor from the surgical resection and pleural fluid (Table 1).
In 1993, a postmortem left pneumonectomy was performed in a 65-year-old man who died from acute respiratory distress syndrome complicating postoperative bronchopneumonia 5 days after surgical resection of a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.
Nodal cancer staging currently relies on invasive procedures (surgical lymph node dissection, sentinel lymph node resection, biopsy) with significant morbidity and cost [22,23], or insensitive tomographic imaging methods [24].
Tumor stage is the most significant prognostic parameter for 5-year survival, but even patients with non-small cell lung cancer (non-SCLC) in pathologic stage IA disease (a tumor of less than 3 cm diameter located in one lobe of the lung and more than 2 cm from the carina without visceral pleural involvement, atelectasis, or pneumonitis, and absence of metastatic spread to regional lymph nodes) have a 33% chance of recurrence within 5 years after complete surgical resection (lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection) [ 2].