Percutaneous Therapeutic Technologies for Medically Inoperable Lung Cancer Shawn Haji-Momenian Ricardo S. Santos Hiran C. Fernando Damian E. Dupuy Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in…
Surgical Management of Second Primary and Metastatic Lung Cancer Yvonne M. Carter Dan J. Raz David M. Jablons More than half of the approximately 160,000 patients diagnosed with lung cancer…
Vertebral Body Resection Linda W. Martin Garrett L. Walsh Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that extends to the vertebrae is classified in the TNM system as T4 disease. The T4…
Management of Stage II Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Pancoast Tumors Matthew Steliga Ashish Patel Ara Vaporciyan STAGE II TUMORS Lung cancer remains the single most deadly cancer in the…
Management of Ground-Glass Opacity Lesions Hisao Asamura Recently, smaller and fainter nodules are being found on computed tomography (CT) imaging.1,2 This is partly a result of the markedly improved quality…
The International Staging System for Lung Cancer Peter Goldstraw Over the last 40 years, the International Staging System (ISS) has become an essential tool for all those involved in the…
Extent of Resection for Stage I Lung Cancer Paul C. Lee Nasser K. Altorki HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The surgical management of lung cancer has undergone tremendous evolution since the first case…
Minimally Invasive Techniques for the Management of Lung Cancer Robert J. McKenna Jr. The hope for video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) treatment of lung cancer is that it would reduce morbidity,…
Surgical Evaluation of the Mediastinum Frank C. Detterbeck At first glance, surgical mediastinal staging may appear to be a mundane and lackluster topic, extensively reviewed with little new information to…
Bronchoscopy in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Lung Cancer Thomas G. Sutedja Thomas Santo Michael Zervos Felix J.F. Herth Rigid optics to examine the central airways were designed by Gustav…
