How do you manage postoperative chylothorax?
Chylothorax is one of the complications I considered the most fearful. Patients having this PO complication deteriorate so quickly that […]
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Should #5 and #6 lymph node station be biopsied in every patient with NSCLC?
Back in 1988, Patterson and colleges described a better 5 year survival for those patients with isolated metastasis to LN
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Left sided lung cancer resection: lymph node stations that should be looked into
We already went through the importance of the adequate staging of lung cancer. It’s not only about the stage of
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Lymph node dissection during lobectomy for lung cancer: stations to be at least sampled in right-sided resections
No one doubts about the need of doing mediastinal lymph node sampling during lobectomy for lung cancer. In the presence
Mediastinoscopía
¿Llegó el fin de la mediastinoscopía?
En el último numero de Thoracic Surgery News, publicado por el AATS, una nota se dedica a tratar el tema
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Is it VATS the best approach for thymectomy?
We have seen many reports that address VATS as an effective way of doing thymectomy for thymomas. I was never
Empiema-Decorticación
Definiendo el mejor tratamiento del empiema pleural
Hay diferentes maneras de tratar a un paciente con empiema pulmonar, desde la colocación de un tubo de tórax hasta
Enfermedad N2, Mediastinoscopía
Mediastinoscopy near the end
In the current edition of the Thoracic Surgery News, published by the AATS, a note addresses the issue of mediastinoscopy
Tumores de mediastino
¿Es la videotoracoscopía la mejor forma de realizar una timectomía?
Hay varios trabajos publicados que muestran que la videotoracoscopía es un abordaje efectivo para hacer una timectomía para resecar un