[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...