Totally robotic en bloc left upper lobectomy and chest wall resection after neoadjuvant chemoradiation.

Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago IL.

Published: November 2023

This patient presented with a stage IIIB advanced lung cancer with chest wall invasion. She was treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy and had an excellent treatment response. The management of T3N2 disease is controversial, but given her treatment response and age, she was discussed by the multidisciplinary tumour board and referred for surgical evaluation. She was offered a robotic en bloc lobectomy and chest wall dissection.

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