[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 aim of this prospective study is to compare the incidence and the types of infections occurring after two different VATS procedures: lung wedge resection versus biopsy of pleura/ mediastinal mass.

Both segmentectomy and wedge resection procedures are usually performed when a small cancer is found in a small area of the lung. A wedge resection is like a segmentectomy, but it is typically a ...

wedge resection, according to results presented at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting. “We believe that these results are quite powerful and informative,” Christopher Seder ...