A segmentectomy is a surgical procedure that removes one of the ten anatomic segments of a lung. It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the ...

A new study by a team of 12 thoracic surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), published recently in the ...

Your cancer specialist might consider other surgeries that remove more of the lung. These options include pneumonectomy (to remove one lung), lobectomy (to remove a part of the lung called a lobe), or ...

Segmental resection (segmentectomy): Take out the part of the lung where the tumor is. Sleeve resection: Remove a lobe of the lung and a part of the airway. Lobectomy: Cut out an entire lobe of ...

Wedge resection. This is when only part of a lobe is removed. Your doctor may refer to this surgery as a "segmentectomy." After you have a primary treatment for your lung cancer, such as surgery ...

Surgical resectability included partial hepatectomy (70%), segmentectomy (10%), and liver transplantation (20%). Mixed histologic subtype was the most frequent (75%). The fetal component was ...

Background: Hepatolithiasis is regarded as the presence of stones in the intrahepatic bile ducts. Recurrent inflammation of bile ducts can bring many bad effects. How to completely remove stones is ...

Background: ERAS is an evidence-based multimodal perioperative protocol focused on stress reduction and promoting a return to function. The aim of this work is to perform a cost-consequence analysis ...