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Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Stapled Wedge Excision for Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules by Allen, Mark S.; Deschamps, Claude; Lee, Roberta E.; Trastek, Victor F.; Daly, Richard C.; Pairolero, Peter C. is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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underwent video-assisted thoracoscopy for indeterminate pulmonary nodules. Median age was 64 years (range 30 to 85 years). Thoracotomy was performed in 33 patients (28.0 %) after thoracoscopy only because the nodule could not be located in 17 patients, was too large to safely resect in 5, appeared malignant in 4, and for technical reasons in 7. Eighty-five patients underwent thoracoscopic wedge excision. Twenty-one (24.7%) of these 85 patients also had thoracotomy-IS to perform formal lung resection for bronchogenic carcinoma, 3 for nondiagnostic abnormalities, 2 to locate a second nodule, and 1 for stapler malfunction. The remaining 64 patients (54.2 %) had only video-assisted thoracoscopic wedge excision. A single wedge excision was performed in 56 patients, two in 6, and three in 2. Pathologic examination of these 74 nodules revealed a granuloma in 30, metastatic cancer in 25, hamartoma in 7, lymphoma in 1, and other benign lesions in 11. There were no deaths and only 4 (6.3 %) complications in these 64 patients. The 64 patients treated by thoracoscopy only were compared with a similar group of 64 patients who had wedge excision via thoracotomy without prior thoracoscopy. Postop
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- Author
- Allen, Mark S.; Deschamps, Claude; Lee, Roberta E.; Trastek, Victor F.; Daly, Richard C.; Pairolero, Peter C.
- Publisher
- CTSNet; American Association for Thoracic Surgery; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 1097-685X)
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)