Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30345102›Full record

ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy with chest wall resection.

Guilherme Dal Agnol, Ricardo Oliveira, Paula A Ugalde

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Guilherme Dal AgnolDivison of Thoracic Surgery, Americas-Centro de Oncologia Integrado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ricardo OliveiraDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Santa Casa de Misericórdia da Bahia, University-affiliated hospital, Quebec, Canada.
Paula A UgaldeDepartment of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer presents with chest wall invasion in 5-8% of patients, which imparts some treatment challenges. Surgical resection is currently the standard of care, and there are some controversies regarding the best approach. Published series and case reports confirm the safety and feasibility of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in highly complex surgical cases including lobectomy with chest wall resection of locally advanced lung cancer. In this article, we present the clinical indications of locally advanced lung cancer that infiltrates the chest wall, the modalities for and importance of accurately staging lung cancers with chest wall invasion, and the technical aspects of accomplishing a safe and oncologically sound extended resection through VATS.

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chest wallLung neoplasmsmetastasisthoracic surgeryvideo-assisted

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PMID30345102
PMCPMC6178293

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