Publications by authors named "Wen-Chuan Tsai"

Rationale: Urethral hemangiomas commonly occur in men or elderly women. We presented a rare case of urethral hemangioma in a prepubertal female patient.

Patients Concerns: An 8-year-old girl had the complaints of bloody staining of clothing, a foul perineal odor, and urethral pain.

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To assess surgical outcomes in synchronous multiple primary lung cancer (SMPLC) and correlations with clinicopathological features and prognostic/predictive factors.We retrospectively reviewed patients diagnosed with early-stage nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) between January 2006 and June 2012. In total, 564 patients with resectable NSCLC underwent a preoperative positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan followed by anatomic resection.

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Background: Surgical resection of small pulmonary nodule is challenging via thoracoscopic procedure. We describe our experience of computed tomography (CT)-guided needle puncture localization of indeterminate pulmonary nodules prior to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).

Methods: From January 2011 to July 2014, 78 consecutive patients underwent CT-guided marking for the localization of 91 small pulmonary nodules.

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