the mainstay treatment is video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy — the anatomic resection of an entire lobe of the lung. However, recurrence and distant metastases are frequent after resection ...

Video / RNZ / Nick Monro Ian Tollemache was an unnamed patient mentioned in last month’s Health and Disability Commissioner ...

The only randomized controlled trial conducted in this setting to date found a dramatic advantage for surgery over medical treatment in temporal lobe epilepsy. In carefully selected patients ...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a ... The procedure is performed with general anesthesia using a special endotracheal tube that allows ...

No treatment for lung cancer today gives us significantly better chances of survival than chest surgery from 60 years ago, according to a medical historian from The University of Manchester. Dr ...

Despite an initial unnoticed migration, a chest x-ray and CT scan reveal the implant embedded in a subsegmental artery.

It is more common to have surgery for a lung NET than a lung NEC. Some operations remove particular areas of the lung: A wedge resection means the surgeon removes an area of the lung that includes ...

The man, in his 60s, required further surgery to remove the left lower lobe of his lung. According to the report, Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell identified several issues for ...

the cancer later returned and was now in the right lower lobe of his remaining lung. Mr A went on to raise concerns with the HDC about the information provided to him before the second surgery.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The recurrence-free survival estimate at 5 years was 34% in stage III non-small cell lung cancer ...