Sublobar Resection Versus Lobectomy for Small (≤3 cm) NSCLC with Visceral Pleural Invasion: A Propensity-Score-Matched Survival Analysis from a Nationwide Cohort.

In such cases where the tumor cells, although invading the visceral pleura, have not demonstrably spread beyond the lung parenchyma or immediate pleura, the systemic risk might be primarily driven by factors like LVI (which remained highly significant in our multivariate analysis) rather than the local extent treatable by the resection type difference between SLR and lobectomy.

also in 132,142 other papers