A detailed and robust meta-analysis asserting lack of strong evidence supporting either modality.
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Lung - Cancer
August 8, 2019
August 1, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Mara Antonoff of the MD Anderson Cancer Center moderates a discussion on how immunotherapy is changing the landscape of surgical lung cancer care.
July 22, 2019
This video demonstrates a robotic right lower and middle bilobectomy.
July 19, 2019
Patient Care and General Interest
July 15, 2019
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy enhanced by thoracic LigaSure and Medtronic Signia.
July 10, 2019
Spread through air space (STAS) is a pattern of lung adenocarcinoma invasion, and it is a predictor of recurrence in patients with early-stage lung adenocarcinoma. However, less is known about the role of STAS in advanced lung adenocarcinoma.
July 2, 2019
Ng and colleagues reviewed articles published between 2000 and 2018 to compare lobectomy approaches of multiport, uniportal, and robotic video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and open lobectomy, with the aim of providing evidence-based recommendations for the optimal surgical approach for early stage non–small cell lung cancer.
July 2, 2019
The author discusses how nontechnical skills and forming a shared mental model for VATS lobectomy teams enhances performance.
June 28, 2019
Patient Care and General Interest
San Francisco, California, passed an ordinance to ban the sale of e-cigarettes in the city, the first such ordinance in the USA.
June 21, 2019
Verdial and colleagues prospectively characterized the performance of a guideline-recommended invasive mediastinal staging (IMS) strategy in detecting nodal disease among 123 patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).