Robotic or thoracoscopic segmentectomy: Each complements the other

Thoracoscopic superior segmentectomy.

The patient is a 59-year-old formerly smoking male with a history of T2N0M0, stage I colon cancer. He underwent a left hemicolectomy five years prior to presentation and was referred for an enlarging 7 mm pulmonary nodule noted on surveillance imaging. His past medical history was significant for coronary artery disease and hypertension. Given the deep location of the pulmonary nodule and the p...

Total thoracoscopic pulmonary segmentectomy.

OBJECTIVE In lung resection, thoracoscopy has been mainly used for wedge resection and lobectomy. There have been very few reports on pulmonary segmentectomy, mainly because of its complex nature. The present report evaluates the safety and efficacy of thoracoscopic pulmonary segmentectomy for the treatment of benign lung diseases or small lung carcinomas. METHODS The study involved 30 patien...

Different IS Research Communities: Are They Competitors, Complements, or Ignoring Each Other?

A first intuitive hypothesis, regularly supported by IS academics, states that IS research delivered by universities and university research centers tends to be more rigorous. The leading academic researchers in the field rarely quote research results from market research or consulting companies, at least not after completing the introduction of their texts. On the other hand, the majority of c...

Totally thoracoscopic left upper lobe tri-segmentectomy.

Ann Cardiothorac Surg 2014;3(2):197-201 www.annalscts.com With continued growing interest in sublobar resections from the international surgical community (1,2), mastering thoracoscopic segmentectomy is an important challenge for the surgeon. With respect to sublobar resections of the left upper lobe, it is now considered that for T1 tumors, a lingual-sparing upper lobectomy is oncologically eq...

Single incision video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomic segmentectomy.