Laparoscopic wedge resection (LR): a surgical procedure that removes a tumor and a margin ... Some studies suggest LR has lower complication rates and shorter hospital stays while others highlight the ...

Early-stage NSCLC is typically treatable with surgery without the need for chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Surgery types often include wedge resection ... of the whole lobe of the lung ...

respectively), and survival was similar for segmentectomy and wedge resection. "This research is a significant step forward in understanding the long-term implications of surgical choices for lung ...

The study analyzed outcomes for more than 32,000 stage 1A NSCLC patients using data from the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database ... better outcomes than wedge resection, which had 5-year ...