During the study period, 9,680 subjects had complicated pneumonia. Subjects were excluded if they did not have a pleural drainage procedure (n = 5798), or if thoracentesis was the first pleural fluid ...

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.

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.

Pleural abrasion was linked to reduced intraoperative blood loss. The total postoperative drainage volume was lower in the pleural abrasion group. Patients in the pleural abrasion group experienced ...

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 ...

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Doctors in Kolkata have successfully treated a five-year-old boy, for a massive right-sided pleural empyema, which is a ...

We present a case of a 52-year-old woman with a history of a liver hydatid cyst diagnosed about 20 years before. The cyst was recognized as Echinococcus granulosus with a serological enzyme-linked ...