Carcinoid tumours of the lung and the 'PEPPS' approach: evaluation of preoperative bronchoscopic tumour debulking as preparation for subsequent parenchyma-sparing surgery.

Moreover, these techniques not only spare parenchyma to a highly significant extent, as shown in this study, but have lower complication rates at bronchial anastomosis and a lower morbidity and mortality as well as ‘excellent’ long-term survival rates with similar recurrence rates compared with conventional methods. 5 20 29 Furthermore, they are associated with increase

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