RESECTION FOR LOCALIZED AIR TRAPPING PULMONARY DISEASE

Robotic sleeve resection for pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND Few studies have described robotic sleeve resection with pulmonary resection. Here, we report the successful implementation of a completely portal robotic sleeve resection with or without pulmonary resection using a modified suture mode. METHODS In total, 339 patients underwent curative robotic pulmonary surgery at Ruijin Hospital between May 2015 and September 2017. Three of these...

Detection of air trapping in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by low frequency ultrasound

BACKGROUND Spirometry is regarded as the gold standard for the diagnosis of COPD, yet the condition is widely underdiagnosed. Therefore, additional screening methods that are easy to perform and to interpret are needed. Recently, we demonstrated that low frequency ultrasound (LFU) may be helpful for monitoring lung diseases. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether LFU can be used to...

Pulmonary Resection in the Presence of Localized Empyema

The purpose of this paper is to present in summary three cases of subtotal pulmonary lobectomy and one case of total pneumonectomy, all of which were carried out in the presence of a complicating encapsulated empyema without preliminary drainage. It has been rather commonly considered in cases of pleural empyema complicating suppurative disease of the lung parenchyma that preliminary drainage s...

Unilateral air trapping.

Resection for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Removal of tuberculous organs or tissues has long been an accepted and successful form of treatment in ' surgical ' tuberculosis. Lesions in the kidneys, the genital organs in both sexes, cervical lymph glands and in certain bones and joints have all been treated in this way with good or excellent results even before the advent of streptomycin. The lung, however, has until recently defied such ...