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Video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy is less costly and morbid than open lobectomy: a retrospective multiinstitutional database analysisScott J Swanson
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 93:1027-32. 2012..The Premier Perspective Database (Premier Inc, Charlotte, NC) was used to compare hospital costs and perioperative outcomes for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and open lobectomy procedures in the United States...
Transthoracic esophagectomy with radical mediastinal and abdominal lymph node dissection and cervical esophagogastrostomy for esophageal carcinomaS J Swanson
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 72:1918-24; discussion 1924-5. 2001..The technique includes right thoracotomy, laparotomy, and cervical esophagogastrostomy (total thoracic esophagectomy) with radical mediastinal and abdominal lymph node dissection...- Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) resection for lung cancerScott J Swanson
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Surg Clin North Am 82:541-59. 2002..The validity of VATS for lung cancer will be determined by long-term data. A phase III national (intergroup) protocol is being drafted and will help to answer these questions... - Video-assisted thoracic surgery segmentectomy: the future of surgery for lung cancer?Scott J Swanson
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 89:S2096-7. 2010..This technique can be easily learned by surgeons who use video-assisted thoracic surgery to perform other operations... - Segmentectomy for lung cancerScott J Swanson
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 22:244-9. 2010..A technical description of VATS segmentectomy is provided, including 2 new methods for ensuring the exact delineation of the fissure... - New surgical options for elderly lung cancer patientsM T Jaklitsch
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Chest 116:480S-485S. 1999..Age alone should not be a contradiction to thoracic surgical interventions when video thoracoscopy is performed as treatment... - Interpreting improvement in expiratory flows after lung volume reduction surgery in terms of flow limitation theoryE P Ingenito
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163:1074-80. 2001.... - Treatment of patients with lung cancer and severe emphysemaS J Mentzer
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Chest 116:477S-479S. 1999..Early results of combined LVRS and lung cancer resections suggest a favorable outcome in carefully selected patients... - Surveillance transbronchial lung biopsies: implication for survival after lung transplantationS J Swanson
Lung Transplant Program, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 119:27-37. 2000..We wished to determine whether early rejection after lung transplantation as assessed by surveillance transbronchial biopsy predicts for survival... - Extent of lymph node resection does not increase perioperative morbidity and mortality after surgery for stage I lung cancer in the elderlyM Shapiro
Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA
Eur J Surg Oncol 38:516-22. 2012..In this study, we compared the outcomes in elderly patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) undergoing extensive (> 10 nodes) and limited (≤ 10 nodes) LN resections... - Combined antegrade and retrograde dilation: a new endoscopic technique in the management of complex esophageal obstructionR Bueno
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Gastrointest Endosc 54:368-72. 2001..All strictures were dilated and no perforations occurred. CONCLUSIONS: Combined antegrade and retrograde dilation is a safe and effective technique for dilation of complex obstructing esophageal lesions... - Sequential thoracic metastasectomy prolongs survival by re-establishing local control within the chestM T Jaklitsch
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 121:657-67. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: Multiple attempts to re-establish intrathoracic control of metastatic disease is justified in carefully selected patients, but the magnitude of benefit decays with each subsequent attempt... - Video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: state of the art and future directionsJason P Shaw
Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 10029, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 85:S705-9. 2008..Several published reports suggest thoracoscopic resection is safe, with the potential advantage of shorter hospital stay, quicker recovery, and comparable oncologic results... - Aldehyde fixation of thiol-reactive fluorescent cytoplasmic probes for tracking cell migrationC A West
Laboratory of Immunophysiology, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Histochem Cytochem 49:511-8. 2001..With these fixatives, both the CMFDA and CMTMR fluorescent dyes permitted sufficient anatomic resolution for reliable localization in long-term cell tracking studies... - Comparison of physiological and radiological screening for lung volume reduction surgeryE P Ingenito
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163:1068-73. 2001..ULPR helps identify patients with He disease that improves with surgery, despite unfavorable G(Li)... - Physiological characterization of variability in response to lung volume reduction surgeryEdward P Ingenito
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Appl Physiol 94:20-30. 2003..Among nonresponders, recoil pressure increased out of proportion to reduced volume, such that no increase in vital capacity or improvement in FEV(1) occurred... - Prevention, early detection, and management of complications after 328 consecutive extrapleural pneumonectomiesDavid J Sugarbaker
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 128:138-46. 2004..Complications after extrapleural pneumonectomy were further analyzed to elucidate means of prevention, early detection, and treatment... - Bronchoscopic volume reduction: a safe and effective alternative to surgical therapy for emphysemaE P Ingenito
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 164:295-301. 2001..BVR has the potential for simplifying volume reduction, extending indications, and reducing morbidity, mortality, and costs in humans... - Chemotherapy for a patient with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer during pregnancy: a case report and a review of chemotherapy treatment during pregnancyP A Jänne
Department of Adult Oncology, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Oncology 61:175-83. 2001..Lung cancer arising during pregnancy is rare and has been reported only 15 times since the 1950s. However, the use of chemotherapy for lung cancer during pregnancy has not previously been reported... - Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: centers of excellence or excellence of centers?Cynthia S Chin
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1190 5th Avenue, Box 1020, New York, NY 10029, USA
Thorac Surg Clin 18:263-8. 2008..This will provide an excellent database for evidence-based medicine. Such rigorous data collection should permit thoracic surgeons to be appropriately compensated for performing these technically challenging procedures... - Esophagectomy for esophageal cancerS J Swanson
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Minerva Chir 57:795-810. 2002..Consideration should be given to a cervical placement if there are factors increasing the risk such as the use of induction therapy... - Cell adhesion molecule expression in the sheep thymusT Zhao
Laboratory of Immunophysiology, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Surgical Research Laboratories, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, MA, USA
Dev Comp Immunol 25:519-30. 2001..These studies of thymocyte membrane molecule expression should facilitate future investigations of sheep intrathymic development and T lymphocyte immigration... - Postoperative bleeding: coagulopathy, bleeding, hemothoraxVirginia R Litle
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1190 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA
Thorac Surg Clin 16:203-7, v. 2006..The impact of minimally invasive procedures on the incidence of this complication is addressed in this article... - Spatial variation of plasma flow in the oxazolone-stimulated microcirculationC A West
Laboratory of Immunophysiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Surgical Research Laboratories, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
Inflamm Res 51:572-8. 2002..001). CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that the oxazolone-stimulated adaptations of the inflammatory microcirculation include both microvascular dilatation and the redistribution of plasma flow... - Menopausal effects on presentation, treatment, and survival of women with non-small cell lung cancerKimberly A Moore
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 76:1789-95. 2003..Results suggest that estrogen exposure creates a milieu that may confer a protective effect through some yet unknown mechanisms that determine outcome of the neoplastic process and warrant further investigation... - Improved outcomes with early vocal fold medialization for vocal fold paralysis after thoracic surgeryNeil Bhattacharyya
Division of Otolaryngology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Auris Nasus Larynx 30:71-5. 2003..To determine the clinical impact of early versus late surgical therapy for new onset unilateral vocal cord paralysis (UVCP) after thoracic surgery... - Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: report of CALGB 39802--a prospective, multi-institution feasibility studyScott J Swanson
Surgery Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B CALGB, Statistics Office of CALGB, and Respiratory Committee of CALGB, Chicago, IL, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:4993-7. 2007..To evaluate the technical feasibility and safety of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for small lung cancers... - Thoracoscopic lobectomy: report on safety, discharge independence, pain, and chemotherapy toleranceDaniel G Nicastri
Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 135:642-7. 2008..This series analyzed the safety, pain, analgesic use, and discharge disposition in patients who underwent thoracoscopic lobectomy and segmentectomy at a single institution... - Troubleshooting video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomyTodd L Demmy
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 79:1744-52; discussion 1753. 2005..While these are useful in teaching basic principles, it is more difficult to promulgate the numerous advanced techniques or technical "tricks" that deal with anatomical variations or pathologic changes in the lung tissue... - Stereotactic radiosurgery for thoracic malignanciesJamie A Cesaretti
Department of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 85:S785-91. 2008..The article closes with a discussion of multidisciplinary approaches that include radiosurgery which are on the therapeutic horizon... - Prognostic significance of the number of lymph node metastases in esophageal cancerAlexander J Greenstein
Department of General Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Am Coll Surg 206:239-46. 2008..In this study, we examined whether involvement of a higher number of LNs is associated with worse survival among esophageal cancer patients... - Electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy: a surgeon's perspectiveTodd S Weiser
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 10029, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 85:S797-801. 2008..Not only will navigational bronchoscopy lead to improvements in the diagnostic yield of standard flexible bronchoscopy, but we envision potential therapeutic modalities that can be used this system... - Airway stentsCynthia S Chin
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 85:S792-6. 2008..The different categories of stents have positive and negative attributes that play a role in choosing the proper stent. This article aims to discuss these issues with regards to malignant and benign tracheobronchial disease... - Racial disparities in esophageal cancer treatment and outcomesAlexander J Greenstein
Department of General Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 15:881-8. 2008..In this study, we used a national sample of patients with resectable esophageal cancer to assess the extent to which racial inequalities in care can explain outcome disparities...