Piergiorgio Solli
The Patient A seventy-eight-year old man, a former smoker, was hospitalized for a six centimeter ground-glass opacity (GGO) with a central solid component arising from the upper lobe of the right lung and involving the...
The Patient A forty-year-old woman was referred to the institution after incidental finding of a carcinoid tumor of the middle lobe bronchus. The patient was formerly planned for elective breast...
A seventy-five-year-old man, also a heavy smoker, was admitted with an incidental finding of a lesion in the right upper lobe (RUL) near the right main bronchus. A PET scan...
Introduction “Double sleeve” (vascular and bronchial) lobectomy is a challenging and complex procedure, but a reasonable alternative to pneumonectomy in patients with centrally located tumors involving the pulmonary artery and...
Introduction Major vascular injuries of pulmonary artery branches and pulmonary veins during anatomic thoracoscopic pulmonary resection for lung cancer have been widely described and reported in the literature, as well...
The authors present the case of a 69-year-old woman who was admitted to their division with a diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the upper lobe of the right lung. The preoperative...
Figure 1: Preoperative CT scan In this case, the preoperative CT demonstrated a 6 cm central tumor crossing the oblique fissure between the upper and lower lobes. The case was...






