In routine clinical practice, lobectomy and segmentectomy are associated with improved overall and lung cancer-specific survival compared with wedge resection for stage IA NSCLC (≤2 cm).

Despite that, some messages that are given to the scientific community through a highly diffused journal are not, in our opinion, acceptable in 2016. Indeed, the authors support in their discussion ...

And so, for segmentectomy, that turns out to be a lot more important. Q: Got it. And are there certain patient populations, stages and disease types, for whom this is a more viable option? A: I mean, ...

Although anatomic segmentectomy has been considered a compromised procedure by many surgeons, recent retrospective, single-institution series have demonstrated tumor recurrence and patient survival ...

Publication: Bian C, Fu C, Wang Y, Huang J, Yuan M, Chen L, Wang Q, Wang J. Inter-multisegmental veins (IMSVs): a new positional indication for pulmonary segmentectomy.

The research team of Prof. Hyun Koo Kim of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University's Guro Hospital, developed the "precise and safe pulmonary segmentectomy enabled ...

TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), lung resections, including lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long ...

Laparoscopic enthusiasts have shown that it is safe and feasible to perform laparoscopic liver surgery. [2, 3, 4, 5] Due to its anatomical accessibility left lateral segmentectomy (LLS) has been ...