Patients may better tolerate video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), but there are concerns about the potential for missing lymph node metastases. Over a recent 4-year study period, VATS lobectomy was ...

A total of 268 patients with cN2 disease who underwent lobectomy during the study period were enrolled. Among them, 121 (45.1%) and 147 (54.9%) patients underwent VATS and thoracotomy, respectively.

Pleuroscopy for evaluation of pleural effusions and infections has been performed for centuries and is one of the oldest forms of minimally invasive surgery. The introduction of the double-lumen ...

An increase in the stage of non-small cell lung cancer due to cancer positive lymph node discovery was more common following open chest surgery for lung lobe removal of early stage lung cancer ...

To determine whether a new surgical method using a flexible endoscope (FlexVATS) to perform sparing debridement and apply negative-pressure therapy without extensive decortication may be an ...

While lung surgery has traditionally been performed using open procedures, patients diagnosed with chest diseases have increasingly been opting for Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS), pulmonary ...

Correlates of benefit from induction chemotherapy before radiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): A meta-analytical approach with meta-regression analysis ...

Minimally invasive techniques have been widely applied in general thoracic surgery. Compared with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), due to its theoretic superiority, robotic surgery is ...

For the first time, Max Super Speciality Hospital performed a Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) keyhole surgery of the chest for a collapsed lung on a patient affected from Covid-19 ...

Before surgery, our team will perform tests that may include a chest CT scan, a PET-CT and pulmonary function studies. Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R, Krasna MJ, Mentzer SJ, Zellos L (eds). Adult Chest ...