Latest AI and machine learning research in thoracic surgery for healthcare professionals.
BACKGROUND: Female gender has been associated with worse outcomes after cardiovascular surgery and critical illness. We investigated the effect of gender on perioperative outcomes following robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy.
BACKGROUND: Preoperative computed tomography (CT)-guided localization of small lung nodules is important for accurate and efficient video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Resection of multiple small pulmonary nodules in one VATS procedure can aid in patient management. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of CT-guided Patent Blue V (PBV) dye localization in patients with mult...
Robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy can be considered for patients able to tolerate conventional lobectomy. Contraindications to resection via thorac...
A 61-year-old man had experienced an irritating cough for 1 month. He received a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma by bronchoscopy. Computed tomography...
A 50-year-old female was administered with left lower lobe lesion for 10 days. A preoperative chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a mass in the le...
A 62-year-old woman was referred to the Thoracic Surgery Department after computed tomography (CT) revealed a 1.0 cm × 1.1 cm mass peripherally in the...
BACKGROUND: Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is becoming popular, and uniportal lobectomy in semiprone position was reported in 2014. ...
We examined the treatment outcomes and survival rate of patients treated with salvage thoracoscopic esophagectomy after definitive chemoradiotherapy (...
This review evaluates the benefits and disadvantages associated with the use of robotic-assisted technology in performing lobectomies in patients with...
Physicians are required to interpret, abstract and present in free-text large amounts of clinical data in their daily tasks. This is especially true f...
Intuitive Surgical Inc. (Sunnyvale, Ca, USA) extended the use of the da Vinci robot to head and neck surgery in 2005 following the previous use in uro...