Pulmonary middle lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer: effectiveness and prognostic implications
Author(s) -
Federico Mazza,
Enrico Ferrari,
Paola Maineri,
Massimiliano Venturino,
Béatrice Dozin,
Giovanni Battista Ratto
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezv314
Subject(s) - medicine , dissection (medical) , lung cancer , lymph node , mediastinal lymph node , pathological , stage (stratigraphy) , lung , homogeneous , surgery , gastroenterology , oncology , cancer , biology , metastasis , paleontology , physics , thermodynamics
The therapeutic value of pulmonary middle lobectomy (PML) has been questioned. PML is currently regarded as a standard form of lobectomy, even so it shares some surgical features with segmentectomies (SEG) more than with lobectomies. The present study's aim was to assess the therapeutic value of PML with respect to other lobectomies (LOBs) and SEGs.
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