True Prevalence of Unforeseen N2 Disease in NSCLC: A Systematic Review + Meta-Analysis.

Patients with unforeseen N2 (uN2) disease are traditionally considered to have an unfavorable prognosis. As preoperative and intraoperative mediastinal staging improved over time, the prevalence of uN2 changed. In this review, the current evidence on uN2 disease and its prevalence will be evaluated.

A chart review on surgical myocardial debridging in symptomatic patients: a safe procedure with good long-term clinical outcome and coronary computed tomographic angiography results.

Objectives: Myocardial bridging is mostly diagnosed as an incidental imaging finding but can result in severe vessel compression and significant clinical adverse complications. Since there is still an ongoing debate when to propose surgical unroofing, we studied a group of patients where this was performed as an isolated procedure.

Methods: In 16 patients (38.