Background: Postoperative infections, as related to risk factors, in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) procedures have been studied infrequently. Conclusions: This ...

Frequency of actionable genomic alterations in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma (LA) detected by next-generation sequencing (NGS). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I.

Additional use of the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) technique in the Nuss procedure has been globally accepted for the improvement of safety of surgical treatment as well as for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A phase 3 trial evaluating intrapleural enzyme therapy vs. video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is feasible.

Objective: To determine the comparative effectiveness of common pleural drainage procedures for treatment of pneumonia complicated by parapneumonic effusion (ie, complicated pneumonia). Design: ...

Pleural empyema is the condition of the pleural cavity when initially sterile pleural effusion has become infected. In the majority of cases, it is of parapneumonic origin. Parapneumonic effusions and ...

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Pleuroscopy for evaluation of pleural effusions and infections has been performed for centuries and is one of the oldest forms of minimally invasive surgery. The introduction of the double-lumen ...

Empyema often co-occurs with pneumonia and refers to the presence of pus in the pleural space. There is a range of therapeutic options available for the management of empyema, the primary aim being to ...