A combined small cell carcinoma of the lung containing three components: small cell, spindle cell and squamous cell carcinoma, revisited

Downloaded fr by guest on 21 January -regardless of other parametersfor additional one day in patients with higher LDH levels. We also agree that, larger studies are warranted to define higher LDH level as a sole predictor of pulmonary complications and to disclose mechanism of action of the observed effect. Nevertheless, we are quite confident that, our retrospective study, despite its inherent limitations, nicely showed that, patients with higher preoperative LDH deserves more attention in terms of postoperative morbidity. Moreover, our study could become an ethical basis of further randomized studies.