BARCELONA, Spain — Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for the treatment of early lung cancer leads to better in-hospital patient outcomes than open lobectomy without compromising oncologic ...

Researchers took both the learning curve of the new process and the COVID-19 pandemic into consideration. A new cost analysis found some evidence that the initial increased costs associated with robot ...

Stage IIIA non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) encompasses a heterogeneous group of tumors with a wide range of sizes, degrees of local invasion, and mediastinal lymph node involvement. The variety of ...

• This study found the uniportal approach could reduce postoperative symptom burden and produce better clinical outcomes compared with the multiportal approach among sub-lobar resection patients. • ...

Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall survival rate, according to a meta-analysis presented at the ...

Role of LINE-1 methylation status of adjacent normal colonic mucus in the survival of Chinese patients with colon cancer. Results of observational study to determine K-ras mutation rates in 2458 ...

Introduction Computed tomography (CT)-guided suture anchor localizer (SAL) placement is increasingly used to facilitate preoperative localization of pulmonary nodules (PNs) before video-assisted ...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a minimally invasive technique. A VATS lobectomy, or thoracoscopic lobectomy, procedure is performed ...

Background: Total tubeless (TT) single-port thoracoscopic wedge resection is a novel minimally invasive surgical technique for treating peripheral pulmonary nodules. This study aims to evaluate its ...