BACKGROUND: Our understanding of traumatic diaphragmatic injury (TDI) is based
primarily on outdated retrospective series. We sought to reexamine present day patterns of …

Purpose Educators in surgical training programs are concerned that the Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) duty hours limitations may adversely affect …

Acute diaphragmatic hernia is a result of diaphragmatic injury that accompanies severe blunt
or penetrating thoracoabdominal trauma. It is frequently diagnosed early on the trauma bay …

Background This study aimed to describe the differences in the management of symptomatic
gallstone disease within different elderly groups and to evaluate the association between …

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare overall and disease-free survival
after VATS and open lobectomy for clinical Stage I and II non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …

OBJECTIVES Minimally invasive surgery is accepted for early-stage lung cancer, but its role
in locally advanced disease is controversial, especially using a robotic platform. The aim of …

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noted an improvement in exercise capacity due to a placebo effect, because the vast majority …

Objectives A minimal-dose computed tomography scan of the thorax (MnDCT) delivers a
radiation dose comparable with a chest x-ray (CXR). We hypothesized that in patients with …

Objective(s) During endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) staging, ultrasonographic features
can be used to predict mediastinal lymph node (LN) malignancy. We sought to develop the …

Objectives To determine the prevalence of delayed postoperative venous thromboembolism
(VTE) in patients undergoing oncologic lung resections, despite adherence to current in-…