27 research outputs found
National parties and group membership in the European Parliament: ideology or pragmatism?
Technique of thoracoscopic retrieval of the lung
Extraction of a resected specimen after a thoracic minimally invasive operation presents different problems depending on the amount of parenchyma removed. After a major pulmonary resection (lobectomy or pneumonectomy), the size of the specimen always requires a minimal thoracotomy incision of at least 5-6 cm. In the case of neoplasms it is mandatory to adopt precautions in order to protect the wound edges from possible tumoral seeding during the extraction. The authors, based on their personal experience of 545 video-thoracoscopic procedures, discuss the problems of retrieving the specimens after video-endoscopic resections and describe techniques and precautions which must be taken to extract the resected tissue safely
MOESM5 of Gene methylation of human ovarian carcinoma stromal progenitor cells promotes tumorigenesis
Additional file 5: Table S4. Frequency of methylation among stromal progenitor cells from ascites, cancerous tissues, and bulk tumor cells
technical difficulties and complications in videothoracoscopic ssurgery
Based on their experience of 545 videothoracoscoic procedures among which 224 videothoracsopic staging for lung cancer, 24 removal of meddiastinal masses 85 major pulmonary resections, 15 removal of pulmonary bulls, 109 pleurectomies or apicetomies, 67 pulmonary wedge resections, 5 esophageal leiomyomiomectomies and 4 esophagectomies the authors report the main technical difficulties encountered and describe relevant complications
Staging and treatment of lung cancer by videothoracoscopic technique. 60th Annual International Scientific Assembly of The American College of Chest Physicians. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 30-November 3, 1994. Abstracts
After a conventional pre operative staging, 150 patients affected
by lung cancer were submitted to Videothoracoscopic Operative
Staging (V.O.S.) in order to: 1) verify the resectability of the
lesion; 2) rule out any condition of inoperability; 3) assess the
technical feasibility of video-endoscopic removal.
The pts. were subdivided in three main groups: A) 13 pts. with
peripheral (0.5-2cm.) and hystologically identified cancer in
whom cardio-respiratory conditions were so compromised to
exclude thoracotomy or major resections. B) 79 pts. with lung
cancer at 11 and Ill stage in whom videothoracoscopy is
performed for better staging or excluding causes of inoperability
unrecognisable preoperatively. C) Pts. with lung cancer
preoperatively staged Ti N0-T2NO.
The pts. of group A were submitted to videothoracoscopic wedge
resection. In group B V.O.S. revealed inoperability in 11 pts.. In 4
pts. videothoracoscopic exploration could not adequately carried
out and an open exploration proved no resectability. Operability
was confirmed in 58 who were subjected to a traditional
intervention. In 56 pts. of group C 4 videothoracoscopic
pneumonectomies and 52 videoendoscopic lobectomies were
carried out with loco-regional lymphoadenectomy