Lung - Cancer
This study evaluates the outcomes of bilateral lung transplantation (LTx) using grafts from donors aged 70 years or older, compared with those from younger donors. Conducted at a single center in Leuven, Belgium, the retrospective...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...
In this noteworthy interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
This Society of Thoracic Surgeons Expert Consensus Documents provides updated, multidisciplinary guidance on the multimodal management of pleural mesothelioma (PM). The expert panel emphasizes that surgical resection should only be...
A 79-year-old female patient was admitted to the author’s clinic for the treatment of a solitary tumorous formation, which appeared to be a metachronous metastatic tumor of a colon carcinoma...
Using eight computed tomography radiographic features in an automated algorithm, differentiating between benign and malignant status of indeterminate pulmonary nodules had an area under the curve of 0.939.
...This overview of some recent social science flavored research identifies challenges associated with stigma attached to a lung cancer diagnosis. These challenges include decreased participation in screening tests, noncompliance with...
Patient Care Three-dimensional heart models help patients and families understand congenital heart defects at a hospital in Seattle, Washington, USA. A man received his master’s diploma from Indiana University Northwest...
A 60-year-old patient was diagnosed with a T3N0M0 squamous cell carcinoma. A multidisciplinary tumor board decided to perform a hybrid procedure of left upper lobectomy with resection of three involved...
This video showed a robotic right upper lobectomy for stage IIIA-pN2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following induction chemotherapy. The patient underwent three cycles of cisplatinum-based induction chemotherapy, and then...
Sublobar resection of small (<2 cm) well-differentiated lung cancers is appropriate, especially in elderly patients, and it preserves useful lung parenchyma, thereby maximizing postoperative lung function [1]. Though minimally invasive...
IntroductionCarcinoid is a rare lung cancer that originates from the neuroendocrine cells of the airways. Pulmonary parenchyma sparing procedures should be attempted whenever feasible. Bronchoplasty and sleeve resection are technically...






