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We conclude that video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer patients is a less invasive and safer procedure with a lower morbidity rate compared with lobectomy by thoracotomy.

The present study demonstrated that preoperative plasmapheresis may facilitate improved outcomes of patients with myasthenia gravis after thymectomy.

Our results suggest that D2-40 immunostaining provides a precise diagnosis of lymphatic vessel invasion, and our new grading system of vessel invasion by "degree" is accurate and has prognostic value in early lung cancer.

We thus conclude that a limited operation without lymph node dissection might be the best surgical treatment for carefully selected octogenarians with clinical stage I NSCLC.