Once a sufficient area of the chest wall has been cleared, a chest retractor is inserted to facilitate further surgical steps. The pleura now can be moved from the mediastinum. Once the upper portion ...

[Thorax/Lung and Mediastinum, Pleura: Cancer Current Topics in Lung Cancer Treatment 2023-Current Topics in Palliative Care Medicine in the Field of Lung Cancer].

mediastinal and pleura specimens and 1,000 are skin resections. The divisions of Surgical Oncology and Thoracic Surgery within the UAB Heersink School of Medicine are the primary sources of in-house ...

The cumulative incidence of postoperative infections (including surgical site infection, pneumonia, and empyema) was similar after VATS lung wedge resection and after VATS pleura/mediastinal mass ...