Profiles of PhD students' satisfaction and their relationships with demographic characteristics and academic career enthusiasm.

The satisfaction of doctoral students is very important for the quality of higher education. Based on two-factor theory (also known as Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory), this study used a person-centered approach to examine possible doctoral student satisfaction profiles. In total, 4,964 participants were included in the study, and the results of latent profile analysis showed that they could be classified into four subgroups: (i) the low-motivation-low-hygiene group (700 participants, 14.

Folate receptor-positive circulating tumor cells in the preoperative diagnosis of indeterminate pulmonary nodules.

Background: The use of FR + CTC to distinguish lung cancer from benign lung disease has been well studied. However, the effective method to differentiate precursor glandular lesions from benign/malignant pulmonary diseases is rare.

Methods: 380 patients with indeterminate pulmonary nodules were prospectively recruited.

Left sleeve pneumonectomy via uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic approach.

Left sleeve pneumonectomy is a rarer intervention compared with right sleeve pneumonectomy. It is a challenging surgical therapeutic strategy even when performed through open thoracotomy. Here, we report a case of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) left sleeve pneumonectomy in a patient with non-small cell lung cancer.

Subxiphoid uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic pulmonary segmentectomy: effect of learning curve and future perspectives.

Objectives: Subxiphoid uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy (SU-VATs) has been widely adopted because it is associated with better postoperative pain scores. Nevertheless, it also has had some limitations that have gradually been decreasing. Therefore, our goal was to evaluate the change in perioperative results with SU-VATs as the learning curve developed to outline the current status and the points that should be of future concern.

Subxiphoid uniportal thoracoscopic pulmonary segmentectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: Feasibility, quality of life and financial worthiness.

Background: Subxiphoid uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (SVATS) is more technically challenging than intercostal uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (UVATS), especially in more complex procedures such as segmentectomy. We therefore aimed to investigate the worthiness of undertaking the more demanding subxiphoid approach in patients who had undergone anatomical segmentectomy for stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: A total of 491 patients were included in our study who had undergone anatomical segmentectomy for stage IA non-small cell lung cancer from September 2014 to April 2018.

Favorable prognosis and high discrepancy of genetic features in surgical patients with multiple primary lung cancers.

Objective: Multiple primary lung cancers are detected with increasing frequency, but the ideal strategy for diagnosis and treatment remains disputable. This study evaluated both clinical characteristics and genetic alterations to investigate the appropriate strategy for patients with multiple primary lung cancer.

Methods: A total of 96 patients in our practice were diagnosed with multiple primary lung cancer over 7 years by clinical-pathologic criteria.