Resection Process Map: A novel dynamic simulation system for pulmonary resection

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 ...

Pulmonary Resection for Tuberculosis *

No appreciation of Dr. Samuel C. Harvey's outstanding professional qualities would be complete without mention of his interest and accomplishments in the field of thoracic surgery. He was an early member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, and several of his former residents and assistant residents here have been stimulated to activity in that field of surgical endeavor by his exa...

Lung resection for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Preoperative assessment for pulmonary resection.

Because of recent advances in anesthesia and surgery, almost any patient with a resectable lung malignancy is now an operative candidate, given a full understanding of the risks and provided he or she is investigated appropriately. This progress necessitates a change in the paradigm that one uses for preoperative assessment. Understanding and stratifying the perioperative risks allows the anest...

A novel difficulty scoring system for laparoscopic liver resection.

Early on, laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) was limited to partial resection, but major LLR is no longer rare. A difficulty scoring system is required to guide surgeons in advancing from simple to highly technical laparoscopic resections. Subjects were 90 patients who had undergone pure LLR at three medical institutions (30 patients/institution) from January 2011 to April 2014. Surgical diffic...