Importantly, the completeness of resection and cancer-specific outcomes are similar between VATS lobectomy and open lobectomy. Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R, Krasna MJ, Mentzer SJ, Zellos L (eds). Adult ...

Lung cancer tests include imaging scans ... Another name for this procedure is video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) biopsy. Open biopsy. This procedure is done while you are asleep.

Chest drains are routinely used after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung resections to evacuate fluid and air from the pleural space.

Corrective surgery eight days later removed the cancerous tumour with his whole left lung but meant the cancer that had ... to perform video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomies ...

Finlayson is fighting stage 4 bowel and lung cancer and revealed on ... (metastatic tumours),' she replied. VATS stands for Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and is a form of keyhole surgery.

Lung cancer ... at the Department of Thoracic Surgery and vice president of the hospital, has developed a technique called the single-direction thoracoscopic lobectomy. In a randomized clinical ...

Many are the chest operations as well as minimally invasive procedures (keyhole surgery ... metastatectomy for lung secondaries from other tumours (sarcoma/colon tumours); VATS lobectomy for lung ...