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To the Editor: In discussing Case 20-1996, which involved a congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung (June 27 issue),¹ Dr. Kinane states that the diagnostic and therapeutic procedure is a resection of the abnormal tissue. This may not always be the case.

In a study of 61 live-born infants with this malformation, 16 (26 percent) did not need surgery.² If complications or symptoms are present, then surgery is required, but if there are no symptoms, some centers recommend a policy of watchful waiting and do not subject the patient to a thoracotomy, with the removal of a segment or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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