Surgery serves an important role in the diagnosis, staging, and definitive management of
non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Resection is the primary mode of treatment for stage I …

Surgery remains the best curative option in patients with early stage lung cancer (stage I and
II). Developments in minimally invasive techniques now allow surgeons to perform lung …

Background This guideline updates the second edition and addresses patients with
particular forms of non-small cell lung cancer that require special considerations, including …

Background This chapter of the guidelines addresses patients who have particular forms of
non-small cell lung cancer that require special considerations. This includes patients with …

Despite the antiquity of tracheostomy, tracheal sur-gery was the last anatomic subdivision of
cardiothoracic surgery to develop. In 1950, Belsey [1] observed that “The intrathoracic …

Objective: To evaluate the role of regional lymphadenectomy in patients with liver tumors.
Background: Lymph node status is 1 of the most important prognostic factors in oncologic …

Objective: To study the efficacy of symptom relief and the safety of the Dumon Y-stent for
central airway obstruction in malignant main carinal involvement and in malignant …

Objective: Carinal resection is the most complicated procedure in tracheobronchial surgery.
The main aspects of the technique are still debated at the present time. We present our …

Background: A tracheal matrix scaffold decellularized by detergent-enzymatic treatment has
been shown as a promising scaffold in tracheal tissue engineering. The objectives of this …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether the benefit warrants the risk in patients
undergoing carinal resection for carcinoma. METHODS: This was a retrospective single …