Accurate preoperative staging and restaging of mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with
potentially resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is of paramount importance. In 2007, …

Background. Hydatid disease of the lung caused by Echinococcus granulosus is frequently
encountered in Mediterranean countries. The ideal surgical method for treating this disease …

Background: We planned to investigate the effect of preoperative short period intensive
physical therapy on lung functions, gas-exchange, and capacity of diffusion, and ventilation-…

Objective Our aim was to validate the prognostic relevance in NSCLC of potential residual
tumor (R) descriptors, including the proposed International Association for the Study of Lung …

Accurate preoperative staging and restaging of mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with
potentially resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is of paramount importance. In 2007, …

There are four matters of uncertainty considered in this working group report, which are distilled
into four clinical questions: (1) What is the evidence for the need for palpation of the lung …

The uniportal access for robotic thoracic surgery presents itself as a natural evolution of
minimally invasive thoracic surgery (MITS). It was developed by surgeons who pioneered the …

A quarter of patients with clinical N1 (cN1) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) based on
positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT) imaging have occult …

OBJECTIVES Our goal was to report the results of the first consensus paper among
international experts in uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (UniVATS) lobectomy …

Objectives Healthcare resources have been mobilized to combat the COVID-19 pandemic
of 2020. The Thoracic Domain of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery …