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ASO Author Reflections: The Possibility of a New Prognostic Biomarker of Pericardial Fat Volumes in Resected Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Shuichi Shinohara MD, Kenichi Kobayashi MD & Makoto Nakagawa MD, PhD

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ASO Author Reflections offer a brief invited commentary on the article, “The Prognostic Impact of Pericardial Fat Volumes in Resected Non-small Cell Lung Cancer,” Ann Surg Oncol. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07703-2.

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Shinohara, S., Kobayashi, K. & Nakagawa, M. ASO Author Reflections: The Possibility of a New Prognostic Biomarker of Pericardial Fat Volumes in Resected Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 27, 490–491 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-08004-4

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