Abstract

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) proposed definitions for complete, incomplete, and uncertain resections in lung cancer 15 years ago.1 The definitions were based on several previous definitions and on the consideration of different issues related to the surgical treatment of lung cancer, that is, the different ways of intraoperative nodal assessment, the requirements for pathologic absence of nodal disease (pN0), and the prognostic impact of pleural lavage cytology.

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