%0 Journal Article %T Microsized lung adenocarcinoma vs. small-sized lung adenocarcinoma: clinical characteristics, advantages and surgical implications %A Mangiameli, Giuseppe %A Crucitti, Pierfilippo %A Rocco, Gaetano %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2016 %B 2016 %9 %! Microsized lung adenocarcinoma vs. small-sized lung adenocarcinoma: clinical characteristics, advantages and surgical implications %K %X Owing to the advances in imaging techniques such as thin-section computed tomography (CT) and 3D imaging, lung cancer can now be diagnosed at an early stage. The detection of small-sized lung cancer, including the 1 cm in diameter or less, is remarkably increasing. As a consequence, in 2015 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) proposed the new TNM staging system of lung and pleural tumours, in which T1 (≤3 cm) non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors were divided based on tumour size into T1a (≤1 cm), T1b (>1 and ≤2 cm) and T1c (>2 and ≤3 cm) (1). In this scenario several studies have investigated the role of limited resections, such as wedge and segmentectomy, in the treatment of small size lung cancer ( %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/8814 %V 8 %N 9 %P E1003-E1005 %@ 2077-6624