Patient Care
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Cancer
May 9, 2018
This video showed the feasibility of a robotic approach to perform a lobectomy with radical lymphadenectomy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer after induction chemotherapy.
May 4, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
An article in the New York Times looks at the ethical dilemma of performing surgery for endocarditis in illicit drug users whose addictions go untreated.
May 1, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted anatomic resection of the anterior segment.
April 30, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic pulmonary parenchyma-sparing resection of a carcinoid tumor.
April 27, 2018
Patient Care
April 26, 2018
This video demonstrates the technical aspects of performing a more complex robotic segmental pulmonary resection.
April 25, 2018
This video demonstrates a totally endoscopic robotic sleeve lobectomy.
April 24, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted left upper lobectomy for lung cancer in a patient with hilar node metastasis.
April 24, 2018
Stiles and colleagues retrospectively analyzed prospectively-collected data on approximately 3,200 surgical lung cancer patients, finding that more than one fifth of these patients are never-smokers. Compared to patients with a history of smoking, never-smokers were more likely to be younger, female, and to suffer from adenocarcinoma.