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The results of the landmark study by Shimkin which compared the survival outcomes of patients undergoing either lobectomy or pneumonectomy for localized disease and not localized disease operated upon at the Ochsner and Overholt Clinics. Lobectomy found to be equivalent to pneumonectomy for localized disease. Reproduced from ref. (35).
