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.

A segmentectomy is a surgical procedure that removes one of the ten anatomic segments of a lung. It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the ...

and wedge resection, respectively. The researchers found that lobectomy was associated with improved survival compared with sublobar resection (hazard ratio for overall survival [OS] and lung ...

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.