© Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved. Video-assist Thorac Surg 2016;1:18 vats.amegroups.com The recent study “Long-term survival based on the surgical approach to lobectomy for clinical stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer: comparison of robotic, video-assisted thoracic surgery, and thoracotomy lobectomy” by Yang et al. sheds light on the benefits but also on the limits of minima...

We have read with interest the paper by Hanna et al. [1], who compared video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with open lobectomy for Stage I and II non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with the aim of determining whether these techniques are oncologically equivalent. First of all, we congratulate the authors for the innovative statistical approach adopted. In fact, in order to investigate t...

We report on a case of postoperative lobar torsion in a 51-year-old woman following right upper lobectomy. A right middle lobar torsion was diagnosed by postoperative observation with chest X-ray and bronchofiberscopy. An emergency rethoracotomy was performed and a middle lobectomy was carried out. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged on the 17th day after reth...

The effect of lobectomy on lung function was investigated in 16 patients in whom comprehensive lung function tests were performed before and between six weeks and six months after lobectomy. The operation was well tolerated even by patients with quite severe airways obstruction. The effect of lobectomy on forced flow rates was in keeping with the change in lung volumes. There was no alteration ...

Lobectomy and systematic nodal dissection are still the standard for small-size (<3 cm) nonsmall cell lung cancer. There is growing interest in more parenchyma-sparing surgery, so-called sublobar resections (wedge resection or segmentectomy). Indeed, nonrandomised trials suggest that a segmentectomy may result in local control rates that are similar to lobectomy. Nonsurgical approaches, such as...

Abstract Background Our goal was to discuss the treatment for rupture of contralateral mainstem bronchus during uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopy surgery (uniportal VATS) lobectomy. Case presentation We analyzed clinical data 3 cases VATS. Surgical repair performed immediately under an VATS operation, as a result, bronchial all were repaired successfully, and we continued complete lobectomy...

Over the past four years (1360-1364) we have surgically treated seven infants for lobar emphysema. The pathologic lesion in all patients was in upper lobe of the left lung. Respiratory distress and pneumonia are the cardinal symptoms of patients with this abnormality. Diagnosis is confirmed by chest x-ray. The treatment of choice is lobectomy of affected lobe. 

The aim of this study was to evaluate our personal experience with video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy and compare survival between this procedure and conventional lobectomy via open thoracotomy in patients with clinical stage IA non-small cell lung carcinoma. Between May 1997 and December 2004, 140 patients with clinical stage IA non-small cell lung carcinoma had either VATS lobectomy (VATS...

AIMS The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors for major adverse events of VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery) lobectomy for primary lung cancer. METHODS 1806 Patients (1032 males, 57.1%) planned to undergo VATS lobectomy for stage IA-IIIA lung cancer from July 2007 to June 2012. The Thoracic Morbidity and Mortality Classification TM&M system was used to evaluate the prese...