Pts with suspected lung cancer underwent sampling of normal-appearingbronchial epithelial cells in the main bronchi, unrelated to the suspected tumor. Gene expression was analyzed and classified. Classification for cancer was about 75% accurate.
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May 19, 2015
The question in this review was whether patients who experience tension pneumothorax differ in presentation depending on whether they are breathing spontaneously or are on positive pressure ventilation. Assisted ventilation was more often associated with hypoxia, hypotension, and cardiac arrest. These adverse clinical signs frequently arose within
May 19, 2015
Competence-based rather than time-based surgical education will likely become the norm in the next decade. The authors reviewed current methods for assessing technical competence in trainees. No clear definition of technical competence was evident. Instruments used for assessment were originally designed to assess skill rather than competence. Th
May 18, 2015
A recent picture of a junior doctor asleep while at work in a Monterrey, Mexico hospital has sparked an online conversation about the importance of sleep for doctors.
May 17, 2015
The most recent WHO classification for lung adenocarcinoma is based on the predominant histologic subtype in the resected tumor. Several studies have validated the use of this classification system for prognostic purposes, but predicting response to adjuvant chemotherapy has not yet been tested.
May 17, 2015
In this population-based cohort study with 1044 patients who underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer between 1987 and 2010 in Sweden, the researchers found that a higher number of lymph nodes removed did not affect mortality in any specific stage.
May 12, 2015
This video demonstrates a peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM).
May 8, 2015
Cardiac surgery is at a crossroad. It is the responsibility of the larger cardiac surgical fraternity to reignite the passion shown by the pioneers and succeeding generations of cardiothoracic surgeons.
May 8, 2015
Targeting specific genetic changes in cancer cells offers patients personalized therapy for their tumors. The number of identified abnormalities is rapidly increasing, and determining whether they represent driver mutations or background noise is increasingly difficult. The IBM Watson supercomputer will be used by 10 US cancer centers to identify a
May 4, 2015
This video demonstrates a VATS repair of a symptomatic adult congenital right Bochdalek hernia and plication of the diaphragm.