Although equitable access to care is critical to proper surgical lung cancer management, quality measures (QMs) that assess preoperative access to care are lacking. This study determined the relationship between meeting several preoperative QMs and various short- and long-term outcomes.
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Lung
November 4, 2022
November 1, 2022
This is a video of a right upper lobe apical uniportal segmentectomy utilizing Indocyanine green technology, performed by a resident, describing the anatomy and showing how training in complex segmentectomy is feasible and can be performed safely using uniportal access.
October 24, 2022
This video describes each step of a lung donor retrieval for lung transplant.
October 21, 2022
Lung transplant is a potentially life-saving option for patients with Covid-19-induced acute respiratory distress and pulmonary fibrosis. This study set out to determine whether Covid-19 lung transplant patients had comparable outcomes to other lung transplant recipients with similar lung function.
October 20, 2022
This video shows a right VATS radical thymectomy using a subxiphoid approach for a suspected thymoma associated with myasthenia gravis.
October 17, 2022
This video shows a robotic right upper lobectomy with a focus on technique, technical pearls, and anatomy.
October 12, 2022
This video gives tips and tricks in uniportal S10 segmentectomy utilizing indocyanine green (ICG), detailed explanation of the procedure, and tips for instruments used.
October 4, 2022
This video demonstrates uniportal robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) and its advantages in the treatment of early stage lung cancer.
September 23, 2022
This study aimed to establish risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE), a significant cause of mortality in lung cancer surgical patients. Unlike in surgical specialties that have adopted postdischarge VTE prophylaxis, in thoracic surgery the evidence is scarce.
September 22, 2022
A seventy-one-year-old man with biopsy-proven right upper lobe adenocarcinoma and a prior surgical history of right upper lobe apical posterior segmentectomy underwent a robotic assisted extrapleural completion lobectomy.