[120] Another group reported resection outcomes of 219 patients with stage IA lung cancer, with 117 treated with lobectomy, 60 with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) wedge resection ...

VATS techniques have improved significantly ... the lung’s lobes segmentectomy — removal of a segment of a lobe wedge resection — removal of part of a segment Other lung conditions that ...

The cumulative incidence of postoperative infections (including surgical site infection, pneumonia, and empyema) was similar after VATS lung wedge resection and after VATS pleura/mediastinal mass ...

It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the segment is removed along its anatomic boundaries. Both segmentectomy and wedge resection procedures ...