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How do you approach a lung malignancy with a single pleural nodule near a primary?

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Radiation Oncology · Duke University Medical Center

This is a relatively rare scenario. For example, in a Korean series of almost 4,000 patients undergoing surgery for NSCLC, 78 (2%) were found to have unexpected pleural seeding intra-operatively (Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2018;66:142). A small number of surgical reports suggest, that when limited seedi...

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