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. 2010 Jun;89(6):S2188-90.
doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.111.

Nanotechnology in thoracic surgery

Morgan D Schulz  1 , Onkar Khullar, John V Frangioni, Mark W Grinstaff, Yolonda L Colson
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Nanotechnology in thoracic surgery

Morgan D Schulz et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 2010 Jun.

Abstract

Nanotechnology is an exciting and rapidly progressing field offering potential solutions to multiple challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, with the potential for improving imaging and mapping techniques, drug delivery, and ablative therapy. With promising preclinical results in many applications directly applicable to thoracic oncology, it is possible that the frontiers of minimally invasive thoracic surgery will eventually be explored at the nanoscale.

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