Screening for Lung Cancer: Challenges for Thoracic Surgery
Screening for Lung Cancer: Challenges for Thoracic Surgery Brendon M. Stiles Nasser K. Altorki David F. Yankelevitz Lung cancer is a global health burden and is among the most common…
Lung Cancer: Epidemiology and Carcinogenesis
Lung Cancer: Epidemiology and Carcinogenesis Charles S. Dela Cruz Lynn T. Tanoue Richard A. Matthay Carcinoma of the lung is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States…
Editors’ Note on Revision of the Staging System for Lung Cancer
Editors’ Note on Revision of the Staging System for Lung Cancer Joseph LoCicero III MD Carolyn E. Reed MD Richard H. Feins MD Thomas W. Shields MD At the time…
Lung Transplantation
Lung Transplantation Felix G. Fernandez G. Alexander Patterson Historical Review Early Phase During the early 1950s, Metras78 in France and Hardin and Kittle51 in the United States reported successful canine…
Clinical Trial Design
Clinical Trial Design Mary W. Redman John J. Crowley For thoracic surgery as well as for any other discipline of medicine, the best path toward increased knowledge and better outcomes…
Evidence-Based Thoracic Surgery
Evidence-Based Thoracic Surgery Jemi Olak Paul J. Karanicolas “Evidence-based medicine” (EBM) represents a shift in medical paradigms. Traditional approaches to clinical decision making put a relatively high value on intuition,…
Diffuse Lung Disease
Diffuse Lung Disease Francis C. Nichols Sebastian Defranchi Diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD) comprises a wide range of heterogenous lung disorders characterized by parenchymal lung injury with varying degrees of…
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Wilson M. Clements John F. DeRosimo Carolyn E. Reed Lung disease when manifested as a solitary lesion on imaging is usually asymptomatic and is frequently due to…
Pulmonary Paragonimiasis and Its Surgical Complications
Pulmonary Paragonimiasis and Its Surgical Complications Hiroshi Mukae Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama Yufigumi Nawa Paragonimiasis is a subacute to chronic inflammatory disease of the lung caused by lung flukes of the genus…
Hydatid Disease of the Lung
Hydatid Disease of the Lung Nickolaos N. Harlaftis Homeros A. Aletras Panagiotis N. Symbas Hydatid disease has been known since ancient times. Hippocrates referred to it and Rudolphi40 first used…
