Patient Care and General Interest
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Cancer
February 22, 2019
February 14, 2019
Yang and colleagues investigated the use of intestinal flaps for the reconstruction of the cervical esophagus. They reviewed 22 patients with intestinal segments used to salvage failed primary esophagus reconstruction. There was one case of flap failure.
February 8, 2019
This video demonstrates a robotic left apical and posterior segmentectomy, performed in a patient with bilateral adenocarcinoma, during which an aberrant superior pulmonary vein was incidentally discovered.
February 6, 2019
Park and colleagues evaluated the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for thymic cancers, comparing postoperative outcomes and long-term survival between 102 matched pairs of patients who underwent either upfront resection or resection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
February 6, 2019
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy through a subxiphoid biportal approach. This technique offers a microinvasive surgery for major pulmonary resection with respect to safety and oncological principles, and it works in synergy with ERAS programs for better recovery.
January 28, 2019
The authors describe the surgical resection of a chest wall dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans and reconstruction using deltopectoral fasciocutaneous flaps.
January 23, 2019
Stiles and colleagues evaluated outcomes for patients with esophageal cancer undergoing surgical resection after either neoadjuvant chemoradiation or preoperative chemotherapy without radiation.
January 21, 2019
The authors present a uniportal VATS anatomic right basal segmentectomy performed for the treatment of a 2.5 cm diffuse ground glass opacity adenocarcinoma in the right basal segments, which was found during chronic asthma follow-up.
January 18, 2019
Patient Care and General Interest
Air pollution tops the World Health Organization’s list of Top 10 threats to global health.
January 18, 2019
Mariette and colleagues randomly assigned 207 patients with resectable esophageal cancer to undergo either transthoracic open esophagectomy or hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy.