Robotic-Assisted Lobectomy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Provides Better Patient-Reported Quality of Life Compared to Video-Assisted Lobectomy (Vienna—August 9, 2022 10:10 a.m. CEST) –Robot-assisted ...

Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall survival rate, according to a meta-analysis presented at the ...

(Barcelona, Spain September 8, 2025, 10:45 a.m. CEST / UTC +2) – Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall ...

Background: Chest drains are routinely used after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung resections to evacuate fluid and air from the pleural space. We compared the impact of coaxial ...

Accuracy of FDG-PET to diagnose lung cancer in the ACOSOG Z4031 trial. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

BARCELONA, Spain — Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for the treatment of early lung cancer leads to better in-hospital patient outcomes than open lobectomy without compromising oncologic ...

Patients may better tolerate video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), but there are concerns about the potential for missing lymph node metastases. Over a recent 4-year study period, VATS lobectomy was ...

Your lungs consist of five sections, or lobes -- three on the right and two on the left. Lobectomy, an operation to remove a single diseased lobe, is the most common surgery for lung cancer. If you ...

Introduction: Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is increasingly used in lung cancer treatment. As surgical education progressively shifts to online platforms, such as YouTube, concerns have ...