Lung cancer has the highest worldwide cancer mortality rate. Early non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 84 percent of cases, with curative surgical intervention being the standard treatment.
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Lung
October 12, 2023
October 12, 2023
The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons has collaborated to produce a review on the management of pure ground-glass and part-solid pulmonary nodules.
October 12, 2023
Lung transplantation remains the best option for patients with end-stage lung disease. Despite improving outcomes, the procedure confers significant morbidity risk. This paper presents a single right-sided lung transplant in a sixty-nine-year-old recipient utilizing the Da Vinci robotic system.
October 5, 2023
October 4, 2023
A retrospective cohort analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database of 128,723 patients—who underwent pulmonary resection for non-small cell lung cancer between 2009 and 2019—identified 1,873 (1.5 percent) with interstitial lung disease.
September 25, 2023
This video shows the authors’ method to control the right main PA major bleeding using uniportal VATS.
September 15, 2023
In this session, five expert thoracic surgeons came together to present on thoracic malignancy and its surgical solutions. In this talk, Dr. Alan Sihoe, a thoracic surgeon at CUHK Medical Centre in Hong Kong, discusses his perspective on surgical techniques for advanced lung cancer treatment.
September 15, 2023
This large-scale analysis of the National Cancer Database (NCDB) highlights some interesting trends in the current use of systemic therapy in patients with NSCLC who undergo pneumonectomy.
September 13, 2023
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy with the ArtiSential wristed instruments, which simulate all movements of robotic surgery for a fraction of the price and a faster duration.
September 7, 2023
This video presents a case in which a typical carcinoid tumor was resected in the left lower bronchus orifice followed by a v-anastomosis through RATS, complicated with an intraoperative contralateral tension pneumothorax.