This is a letter in response to the article by Chang and colleagues. The authors begin by stating that the data from this study should be graded according to an internationally accepted system, GRADE.
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August 19, 2015
This is a letter in response to the article by Chang and colleagues. The authors state that this type of analysis was necessary as it is difficult to conduct a clinical trial that involves new technology.
August 19, 2015
This is the authors' reply to the letters submitted to The Lancet Oncology. They begin by stating that the strength of their analysis was that patients were randomised, thereby avoiding selection bias. With regards to low accrual, one major factor was failure of thoracic surgeons to participate. In addition, stage I NSCLC is relatively uncommon.
August 17, 2015
This video demonstrates a left pneumonectomy by single-port approach for a primary squamous cell carcinoma.
August 11, 2015
This video demonstrates a laparoscopic repair of symptomatic left-side Bochdalek hernia in a 20-year-old female.
August 11, 2015
This single institution retrospective study evaluated the relationship of adenocarcinoma subtype to long-term survival after resection of stage I lung cancer. Patients with solid-predominant tumors experienced recurrences earlier, more often in distant sites, and more often in multiple locations. This subtype was also independently associated with
August 9, 2015
Case series of 500 consecutive patients undergoing POEM from September 2008 through November 2013 at a tertiary referral center in Japan. At 2 month follow-up, the success rate was 91.3% (defined as Eckardt score < 2 or reduced > 4 points).
August 5, 2015
This video demonstrates a robotic left middle lobectomy in a patient with situs inversus totalis.
August 4, 2015
This video shows a technique for the gradual transition from a conventional 3/4-port, to a 2-port, and finally to a single-port approach for thoracoscopic anatomic lung resections.
July 30, 2015
Joel Dunning moderates a discussion on the subxiphoid approach in cardiac and general thoracic surgery with Mark Levinson, Chia Chaun Liu, and Takashi Suda.