Predictive model for intraoperative decision-making in video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: optimizing chest drain placement for high-risk patients.

Background: For years, it has been the common and widely accepted practice in thoracic surgery to place apical and basal drains after a lobectomy to completely drain the pleural cavity. With the development of thoracoscopic technology, it became apparent that the use of a single chest tube provided the same clinical results. However, sometimes tension pneumothorax occurs with the need for additional pleural drainage.

Case Report: A rare case of familial lung cancer requiring pneumonectomy in three male siblings.

Lung cancer is a disease with a unique genetic pattern and is occasionally related to hereditary syndromes such as Lynch, Louis-Bar, and Li-Fraumeni. In some patients, germinal mutations may be discovered in combination with somatic alterations. For instance, Li-Fraumeni syndrome often reveals a mixture of and mutations.

Bronchial stump re-resection for lung cancer recurrence after left pneumonectomy.

We report a rare case of curative bronchial stump re-resection after left-side pneumonectomy. A 65-year-old male was operated 2 years prior to current admission for centrally located non-small cell lung cancer, followed by 4 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy. In 2 years after treatment, a local endobronchial recurrence was diagnosed in the bronchial stump.