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While the importance of resection/surgery in the treatment of carcinoma of the lung is fully acknowledged, surgical therapy in the presence of a small cell carcinoma of the lung is vigorously disputed. There seem to be various reasons for this dispute.
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Maassen, W., Greschuchna, D., Martinez, I. (1985). The Role of Surgery in the Treatment of Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung. In: Seeber, S. (eds) Small Cell Lung Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82372-5_10
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