Thoracoscopic lobectomy has recently become a widely used surgical treatment for congenital cystic lung disease, but significant issues can arise in some cases, such as a limited working space in neonates, a limited view in cases involving large cystic lesions. We reviewed the treatment outcomes of neonates that underwent complete thoracoscopic lobectomy or segmentectomy and evaluated the opera...

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is widely performed in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer. However, it is unknown whether VATS sublobar resection has advantages compared with VATS lobectomy in preserving pulmonary function. METHODS Three hundred patients with non-small cell lung cancer who underwent VATS were enrolled. Pulmonary function tests were perf...

Sleeve lobectomy was initially conceived as an alternative to pneumonectomy for patients with low-grade, centrally located lesions and limited cardiopulmonary reserve. Over the last several decades, advances in patient selection criteria and surgical techniques have allowed sleeve lobectomy to evolve from a compromise to pneumonectomy to first line intervention for centrally located lesions of ...

Sublobar resection for small lung cancers has been debated frequently and is still a controversial issue. The only randomised trial comparing lobectomy with sublobar resections found a significantly higher recurrence rate for the latter, but failed to show significant differences in survival, although survival was better for the lobectomy group. One meta-analysis and several nonrandomised compa...

BACKGROUND Although lobectomy is considered the standard surgical treatment for the majority of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the operation project for patients with stage IA NSCLC (T1a, tumor diameter≤2 cm) remains controversial. Sublobectomy is appropriate only in certain patients as many doctors consider it to be overtreatment. We evaluated the five-year overall survival ...

BACKGROUND Sleeve lobectomy for lung cancer in close proximity to or involving the carina is widely accepted. Operative morbidity and mortality rates, recurrence, and survival rates have varied considerably across studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS From March of 2005 to July of 2010, sleeve lobectomy was performed in 19 patients and pneumonectomy was performed in 20 patients. In this paper, the r...

The objective of the present meta-analysis was to evaluate the survival, recurrence rate, and complications in patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who received video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) or open lobectomy. A literature search was conducted on June 31, 2012 using combinations of the search terms video-assisted thoracic surgery, open thoracotomy, lobectomy, a...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that video-assisted (VATS) lobectomy is safer than open lobectomy in patients with compromised lung function, but data regarding this are limited. We assessed acute outcomes of VATS compared to open lobectomy in these high-risk patients using a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of data. METHODS The databases PubMed and Scopus were searched for stu...

We report a case of bronchopulmonary sequestration with secondary abscess formation that resulted in lower lobectomy the right lung. A 32-year-old female productive cough and recurrent pneumonia was found to have large complex intrapulmonary lobe an infected pulmonary sequestration. She placed on antibiotics, underwent chest tube placement for drainage abscess, subsequently, she had lobectomy. ...