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 ...

Background: Postoperative infections, as related to risk factors, in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) procedures have been studied infrequently. Conclusions: This ...

Congenital lung malformations (CLM) are most commonly treated with a pulmonary lobectomy. However, due to technological advancement, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) segmentectomy is ...

A total of 268 patients with cN2 disease who underwent lobectomy during the study period were enrolled. Among them, 121 (45.1%) and 147 (54.9%) patients underwent VATS and thoracotomy, respectively.

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 ...

• 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. • ...

A man in his 30s with congenital indifference to pain with anosmia (CIP) presented to a tertiary centre for elective biopsy and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Post-operatively, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers observed a link between improved overall survival and lobectomy vs. sublobar resection. Researchers ...