Current guidelines recommend anatomical resection and mediastinal lymph node resection for stage I to IIIA pulmonary carcinoids (PCs). The role of wedge resection in stage IA PCs remains controversial, previous studies focused on typical carcinoids (TCs) while differentiating histological subtypes preoperatively is not easy. We aimed to study the effect of wedge resection and lymph node examination (LNE) in patients with stage IA PCs.
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