It may be counterintuitive, but four chest incisions could be better than one. With shorter recovery time and less pain, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is making pulmonary lobectomies a less ...

Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall survival rate, according to a meta-analysis presented at the ...

In a large international clinical study presented at the 99 th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Moishe Liberman, a thoracic surgeon and researcher at the University ...

In the largest published study of its kind, with 1,100 patient cases reviewed, a minimally invasive surgical procedure for lung cancer has been shown to be as effective as open surgery with a low risk ...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery demonstrated superior overall survival than open lobectomy in patients with early-stage lung cancer.

Patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for early-stage lung cancer had improved overall survival (OS) compared with patients who had open lobectomy, according to a ...