Segmentectomy in patients with primary pulmonary malignancies.

Objective: To analyze immediate and long-term results of anatomical resections for lung cancer with subsequent comparison of the results of segmentectomy and lobectomy in patients with peripheral NSCLC stage IA1-2.

Material And Methods: There were 52 sublobular anatomical resections of the lung for peripheral non-small cell carcinoma and carcinoid T1a-bN0M0, IA1-2 stage. 3D-CT reconstruction with separation of bronchial and vascular structures was used to schedule complex segmentectomy.

Two-Stage Surgery Without Parenchyma Resection for Endobronchial Carcinoid Tumor.

Background: The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of a combined approach of endoscopic resection followed by pure bronchoplasty without any pulmonary resection in patients with endobronchial carcinoids.

Methods: We applied a two-stage technique, endoscopic resection first followed by pure bronchoplasty, to 25 patients (10 men, 15 women) with endobronchial carcinoid tumors. The median age was 32.

[Surgery for non-small cell lung carcinoma after previous chemoradiotherapy alone].

Aim: To investigate early and remote results of surgery in patients with recurrent non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) after previous chemoradiotherapy alone.

Material And Methods: The retrospective study included 14 NSCLC patients (10 men and 4 women, mean age 52.6 years) who were operated in thoracic department for the period June 2008 - December 2013.

[Analysis of postoperative complications after pneumo-n-ectomy using thoracic morbidity and mortality (tmm) system in nsclc patients for a 5-year period].

Aim: Postoperative complications after pneumonectomy for NSCLC depend on the extension of surgery, comorbidities and accurate registration of any adverse event. The aim of the study was to evaluate the short-term results after standard and extended pneumonectomy in NSCLC patients according to the TMM grading system.

Material And Methods: We included 216 NSCLC patients consecutively submitted to pneumonectomy at our institution from January 2009 to December 2013 in the retrospective study performed on data prospectively collected in an electronic clinical database.

An original device for intraoperative detection of small indeterminate nodules†.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of our newly designed tactile mechanoreceptor in detection of pulmonary lesions during thoracoscopy.

Methods: Twenty-seven patients with peripheral undetermined subpleural solitary pulmonary lesions detected on computed tomography were included in a prospective non-randomized trial. All nodules from 7 to 18 mm in diameter were located deep in the lung parenchyma (≥ 10 mm from the lung surface).

Fluorescence thoracoscopy in the detection of pleural malignancy.

Objective: Conventional thoracoscopy, routinely performed in patients with pleural diseases, is not always conclusive in staging of pleural spread. Fluorescence diagnosis (FD) with 5-aminolaevulinic acid (5-ALA) has been used in the diagnostic purpose for various malignancies. The impact of fluorescence thoracoscopy on diagnosis and staging of pleural malignancies was examined.