Lung metastases have been found in 25–30% of all patients with cancer at autopsy. Those
patients satisfying criteria for surgical resection represent a much smaller subgroup. Given …

Desmoplastic reactions secondary to adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation in stage IIIA lung
cancer, plus advances in complex tracheobronchial surgery, have rejuvenated an interest …

An electronic barcode medication administration system was successfully implemented in
the acute care and long-term care sections of a 118-bed Veterans Administration hospital …

Fifty-five patients with superior sulcus syndrome were treated at the UCLA Medical Center
and Wadsworth VA Hospital (Los Angeles) between 1956 and 1985. Twenty-eight underwent …

Twenty-one patients underwent sternal resection and reconstruction. Surgical indications
included sternal infection in 9 patients, recurrent breast cancer in 6, metastatic carcinoma from …

By implanting nondisrupted pieces of human lung tumor biopsy tissues into SCID mice, it
has been possible to establish viable grafts of the tumor, as well as the tumor-associated …

Objective. Although thoracotomy for removal of pulmonary metastasis is well documented in
a wide variety of solid tumors, data are sparse regarding management of patients with …

We performed a retrospective review of 36 patients aged 23 to 71 years (mean age, 52
years) who underwent 46 operations through a thoracic or thoracolumbar approach for …

Purpose Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are naturally occurring inhibitors of
matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). It has been shown that TIMP-1 may be a multifunctional …

BACKGROUND: The effects of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) pulmonary lobectomy
on after-hospital care are not well known. METHODS: In a retrospective case-control study, …