The success of training techniques including dividing robotic lobectomy into graduated steps, reviewing video peformances of trainees, and coaching through challenging technical maneuvers were tracked during a 5-year experience.
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Lung - Cancer
September 27, 2016
The authors assessed the relationship between second hand smoke exposure in non-smokers and mortality related to lung cancer using serum cotinine levels. Cotinine levels were associated with survival, death from lung cancer, and death from all cancers after adjustment. Such levels identify second hand smoke effects.
September 12, 2016
This video shows a novel minimally invasive thoracic (MIT) caudal approach for a patient affected by a biopsy-proven neuroendocrine tumor of the middle lobe of the lung (cT1aN0Mx).
August 28, 2016
The authors tested the hypothesis that induction therapy improves survival in patients undergoing resection for clinical N1 disease using information from the National Cancer Data Base. 10% of over 5,000 pts were treated with induction therapy. They were 2:1 propensity matched with patients undergoing the traditional surgery first strategy. Among
August 15, 2016
This video demonstrates a fissure-last, video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) resection of the superior segment of the right lower lobe, using a uniportal posterior approach.
August 2, 2016
Proposed definitions for the 8th edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual are presented.
August 1, 2016
This video shows a uniportal VATS left lower lobectomy. The dissection was performed down to up, and an aberrant vein was incidentally found.
July 15, 2016
This is a retrospective National Cancer Data Base cohort study of patients with pathologic stage T3 invasive NSCLC with separate tumor nodules in the same lobe. The goal was to determine with adjuvant chemotherapy increased survival.
June 30, 2016
The multi-institutional prospective study evaluated the behavior of pure GGOs (85%), heterogeneous GGOs (part solid only on CT lung windows; 7%), and part-solid GGOs on soft-tissue windows. Among pure GGOs, 6.6% advanced to one of the other categories during a mean follow-up period of 4.3 years. Of the 35 pure GGOs that were resected, none was an
June 28, 2016
This video shows a uniportal subxiphoid lobectomy in a patient with a proven adenocarcinoma of the middle lobe.