Video-assisted thoracic surgery segmentectomy: the future of surgery for lung cancer?
Pulmonary segmentectomy has become a good option for small peripheral non-small cell lung cancers and is currently being evaluated in a large North American randomized study, CALGB-140503 (Cancer and Leukemia Group B-140503). Using a video-assisted thoracic surgical approach to segmentectomy decreases the morbidity and hastens the recovery of patients having this operation relative to a thoracotomy. This technique can be easily learned by surgeons who use video-assisted thoracic surgery to perform other operations.
Swanson
Scott J
SJ
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. sjswanson@partners.org
D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted