Pectus excavatum. Surgical treatment: Structural or aesthetic?

Introduction: Pectus excavatum is a wall deformity that often warrants medical evaluation. In most cases, it's a purely visual aesthetic alteration, while in others, it comes with symptoms. Several surgical techniques have been described, but their outcomes are difficult to assess due to the heterogeneity of presentations and the lack of long-term follow-up.

Risk factors for the development of complications after surgical treatment for bronchopulmonary carcinoma.

Introduction: The most suitable treatment in most early-stage lung cancer patients is surgical resection. Despite previously assessing each patient's status being relevant to detect possible complications inherent to surgery, no consensus has been reached on which factors are "high risk" in such patients. Our study aimed to analyse the morbidity and the mortality incidence associated with this surgery in our setting with a multicentre study and to detect risk parameters.

Clinical significance of epithelial-mesenchymal transition-related markers expression in the micrometastatic sentinel lymph node of NSCLC.

Objectives: Metastatic lymph node affectation is the main prognostic factor in localised lung cancer. However, the pathological study of lymph nodes reveals tumour relapse for 20% of patients after oncological curative surgery. Recently, EMT (epithelial-mesenchymal transition) has been established as one of the main factors related to lymphatic dissemination and metastasis.