This study aimed to assess the influence of lobectomy and pneumonectomy on cardiac rhythm and on the dimensions and function of the right-side of the heart. Twelve dogs undergoing lobectomy and eight dogs undergoing pneumonectomy were evaluated preoperatively and one month postoperatively with electrocardiography and Doppler echocardiography at rest. Pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) wa...

OBJECTIVES Comparative long-term survival and oncological outcomes for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who undergo video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) or conventional open lobectomy remain uncertain. We conducted a multi-institutional propensity-matched study to stratify potential differences in these outcomes. METHODS We established a multi-institutional registry for 4312...

BACKGROUND Patients with T1N0 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are preferably treated by anatomic lobectomy. However, not all such patients are suitable for lobectomy due to their age or co-morbidity. Our aim was to determine the results obtained following lobectomy, wedge resection (WR) or continuous hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy (CHART) in patients aged >70 years. PATIENTS Tw...

OBJECTIVE Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) in adults is very rare, and surgical resection is the treatment of choice. We evaluated the clinical characteristics and feasibility and safety of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in adult patients with CCAM. METHODS Retrospective analysis of nine consecutive adult patients with CCAM treated surgically between January 1995 and ...

INTRODUCTION Video-assisted thoracoscopic sleeve lobectomy is safe and feasible for lung cancer. We describe a case of video-assisted thoracoscopic sleeve lobectomy via a novel single intercostal space (SIC) three-port approach. CONCLUSIONS This case demonstrates that a SIC three-port thoracoscopic approach is effective in sleeve lobectomy, and possesses potential advantages in perioperative ...

OBJECTIVE To systematically evaluate 5-year survival, local recurrence rate, long-term recurrence rate and complications for lobectomy and segmentectomy in the treatment of NSCLC. METHODS Articles on randomized and non-randomized clinical studies of 5-year survival, local recurrence, long-term recurrence and complications after lobectomy and segmentectomy for treatment of NSCLC. RESULTS Amo...

IN PREVIOUS REPORTS (1, 2) , we have provided a detailed technical description of right hepatic trisegmentectomy and discussed the relation of this procedure to other more commonly used resections of the liver. At that time, the four standard kinds of anatomic liver resection were right lobectomy; right trisegmentectomy, extended right lobectomy; left lobectomy, and left lateral segmentectomy. ...

INTRODUCTION Thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy after a decade of criticism is nowadays considered as a technically feasible, safe and oncologically proper operation. This approach has some advantages over conventional thoracotomy like: less postoperative pain, shorter hospitalization, fewer postoperative complications, better tolerance of adjuvant chemotherapy with comparable long-term survival ra...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the clinical benefit of segmentectomy for patients with cT1bN0M0 lung cancer. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 178 patients who underwent lobectomy or segmentectomy for cT1bN0M0 lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma from January 1995 to December 2005. We investigated the association of surgical outcomes with the presence of pathologi...

BACKGROUND The optimal operation for a patient with a thyroid nodule "suspicious for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)" on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is unclear. This study examines the incremental cost-utility of thyroid lobectomy with intraoperative frozen section (thyroid lobectomy) versus total thyroidectomy. METHODS Cost-utility analysis was performed for patients with a cytologic diagnos...