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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A review of 54 studies looking at close to 39,000 patients who had a wedge resection for treatment of lung cancer showed a ...

Surgery: If your health is good overall ... Sleeve resection: Remove a lobe of the lung and a part of the airway. Lobectomy: Cut out an entire lobe of the lung. (The right lung is divided ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

If you have a lobectomy or total thyroidectomy, you may get temporary or permanent hoarseness or loss of voice because of nerve damage or irritation from the breathing tube used in surgery.

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