Impact of radiological follow-up frequency on resected lung cancer: a propensity score matching analysis.

Background: Despite advances in lung cancer treatment and the subsequent improvement in oncological outcomes, the optimal frequency of radiological follow-up remains unclear. Current recommendations lack consensus and do not consider individual patient characteristics and tumor factors. This study aimed to examine the impact of radiological follow-up frequency on oncological outcomes following lung cancer resection.

Presurgical invasive mediastinal staging in lung cancer, unexpected N2 and long-term survival: a registry-based study with data from the Spanish group for video-assisted thoracic surgery.

Background: Mediastinal lymph node staging is a key element in the diagnosis of lung cancer. The combination of computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) has improved staging but some circumstances are known to influence their negative predictive value. The objective of this study was to assess the impact on survival of avoiding invasive mediastinal staging in surgical lung cancer patients with negative mediastinum in CT and PET and intermediate risk of unexpected pN2.

Uniportal VATS for Diagnosis and Staging in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).

Uniportal VATS has become an accepted approach in minimally invasive thoracic surgery since its first report for lobectomy in 2011. Since the initial restrictions in indications, it has been used in almost all procedures, from conventional lobectomies to sublobar resections, bronchial and vascular sleeve procedures and even tracheal and carinal resections. In addition to its use for treatment, it provides an excellent approach for suspicious solitary undiagnosed nodules after bronchoscopic or transthoracic image-guided biopsy.

Thoracoscopic segmentectomy versus lobectomy: A propensity score-matched analysis.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to compare the postoperative complications, perioperative course, and survival among patients from the multicentric Spanish Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery Group database who received video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy or video-assisted thoracic surgery anatomic segmentectomy.

Methods: From December 2016 to March 2018, a total of 2250 patients were collected from 33 centers. Overall analysis (video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy = 2070; video-assisted thoracic surgery anatomic segmentectomy = 180) and propensity score-matched adjusted analysis (video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy = 97; video-assisted thoracic surgery anatomic segmentectomy = 97) were performed to compare postoperative results.

VATS lobectomy morbidity and mortality is lower in patients with the same ppoDLCO: Analysis of the database of the Spanish Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Group.

Introduction: Measuring predicted post-operative diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (ppoDLCO) is essential to determine patient operability and to stratify the risk of patients who are candidates for major lung cancer surgery. Studies that established surgical risk variables were based on open surgery series. The aim of our study was to analyze morbidity and mortality as a function of ppoDLCO and to compare its behavior in open and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS).