With more lung cancer cases being detected via both incidental findings and early screenings, robotic-assisted surgery can make for an all around better experience for patients. Charles Simmons, a ...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a minimally invasive technique. A VATS lobectomy, or thoracoscopic lobectomy, procedure is performed ...

The world’s first VATS lobectomy — surgery to remove one of the lobes of the lungs — using a single incision was reported in 2011. At the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, we performed the first ...

A thyroid lobectomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing part of the thyroid. This procedure may help treat thyroid cancer, as well as other thyroid conditions. Individuals with thyroid ...

A new study by a team of 12 thoracic surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), published recently in the ...

The study included 194 patients, including 74 patients with suspected or confirmed NSCLC scheduled for curative surgery more ...

The procedure may also be done to evaluate noncancerous lung conditions such as tuberculosis or aspergillosis and to remove ...

Lobectomy - when one of the five lobes is removed; Segmentectomy - when a segment is removed; Wedge resection - when a small section of the lung is removed; Pneumonectomy - when an entire lung is ...

Professor Park Joon-ho's team of plastic surgery surgery at Boramae Hospital in Seoul Metropolitan Government, operated by ...

What Is a Tummy Tuck Procedure? A tummy tuck is surgery that removes excess fat and skin from the abdomen, or belly area. During the procedure, which doctors call abdominoplasty, the surgeon will ...