%0 Journal Article
%T Management of occult malignant pleural disease firstly detected at thoracotomy for non-small cell lung cancer patients
%A Miao Huang
%A Shanyuan Zhang
%A Shaolei Li
%A Yuanyuan Ma
%A Yue Yang
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2017
%R 10.21037/jtd.2017.09.112
%X Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with malignant pleural disease (MPD), which includes malignant pleural effusion (MPE) and/or malignant pleural nodules (MPN), are generally considered to be inoperable and the prognosis of this disease has remained persistently bad during the last 30 years (1-3). MPD is often discovered at thoracotomy for the NSCLC patients, and the treatment of primary cancer lesion is always controversial (4-8)
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