Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Investigators found patients who underwent wedge-shaped resection of the cranial portion of the posterior bony ...

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 ...

Surgery may be underused in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC), suggest the investigators of a recent study. 1 But when to operate? And what is the optimal surgical approach?

LOS ANGELES -- Surgeries to remove small tumors in stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were associated with varying odds of long-term survival depending on the amount of lung removed, based on ...

For patients in the early stage of non-small cell lung cancer, surgical resection yields optimal outcomes. Prior investigations have shown that different resection procedures have very different ...

Lung cancer surgery is the primary form of treatment for most cases of early stage lung cancer. Surgery is particularly effective in cases where the tumor hasn’t spread. It can help treat the cancer, ...

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Biomarkers in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma The authors retrospectively compared the outcome of medically compromised ...

Overall, 27% of 2,008 patients with adenocarcinoma and 32% of 1,139 patients with squamous cell carcinoma underwent limited resection. Survival analyses, adjusted for propensity score by using inverse ...

This study aimed to assess the clinical effectiveness of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in early-stage lung cancer by indocyanine green (ICG) for tumor mapping. Thirty patients with early ...

Arcuate keratotomy is a common procedure after keratoplasty, but can induce central corneal haze in eyes with a history of PRK. Herein, we report on a patient with the history of uncomplicated ...

With the rapid development of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic (LAP) wedge resection has become the first-choice treatment for primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the stomach.