Although equitable access to care is critical to proper surgical lung cancer management, quality measures (QMs) that assess preoperative access to care are lacking. This study determined the relationship between meeting several preoperative QMs and various short- and long-term outcomes.
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Cancer
November 4, 2022
November 1, 2022
This is a video of a right upper lobe apical uniportal segmentectomy utilizing Indocyanine green technology, performed by a resident, describing the anatomy and showing how training in complex segmentectomy is feasible and can be performed safely using uniportal access.
October 21, 2022
Because of the major developments in the treatment of esophageal cancer in recent decades, the authors of this study conducted it at a tertiary referral center to determine if long- and short-term survival rates had improved for patients who underwent esophagectomy from 1993 to 2018.
October 17, 2022
This video shows a robotic right upper lobectomy with a focus on technique, technical pearls, and anatomy.
October 12, 2022
This video gives tips and tricks in uniportal S10 segmentectomy utilizing indocyanine green (ICG), detailed explanation of the procedure, and tips for instruments used.
October 4, 2022
This video demonstrates uniportal robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) and its advantages in the treatment of early stage lung cancer.
September 26, 2022
This article and video describe a robotic right upper sleeve lobectomy for the treatment of a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with regard to both relevant anatomy and surgical technique.
September 23, 2022
This study aimed to establish risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE), a significant cause of mortality in lung cancer surgical patients. Unlike in surgical specialties that have adopted postdischarge VTE prophylaxis, in thoracic surgery the evidence is scarce.
September 22, 2022
A seventy-one-year-old man with biopsy-proven right upper lobe adenocarcinoma and a prior surgical history of right upper lobe apical posterior segmentectomy underwent a robotic assisted extrapleural completion lobectomy.
September 20, 2022
This video shows a uniportal robotic right lower lobectomy for a large right lower lobe tumor.