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Cancer
August 10, 2018
August 3, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
Renowned former Formula 1 racing champion Niki Lauda recently underwent a lung transplant.
August 1, 2018
This video demonstrates an apparent failure of indocyanine green for determination of the intersegmental plane; is it wrong or correct?
July 27, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
July 27, 2018
A useful editorial debating current issues on the classification of mesothelioma.
July 23, 2018
This video demonstrates right and left pneumonectomies, each performed via a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic approach.
July 20, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
July 19, 2018
Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Ft Lauderdale, FL, Joel Dunning of the James Cook University Hospital in London, UK, interviews Raja Flores of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, USA, about surgical treatment for mesothelioma and lung cancer.
July 17, 2018
Barbetta and colleagues retrospectively reviewed outcomes for 80 patients with T2N0 esophageal adenocarcinoma, staged by endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and treated by surgery alone. EUS staging was inaccurate in the majority of patients, and final pathologic staging found nodal disease in 35% of patients.
July 13, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
A 7-year-old girl who received a heart transplant as an infant is now competing in the Canadian Transplant Games, which are underway at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.