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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air ...

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.

It can cause a person’s entire lung to collapse. After having surgery, a person may be at risk of experiencing postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs). These refer to respiratory issues ...