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Video-assisted thoracic surgery resection of chest wall en bloc for lung carcinoma
M D Widmann1, R J Caccavale, J P Bocage
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA. mdw@north-jersey-thoracic.com
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 13, 2001
Abstract:
A video-assisted thoracic surgery approach to en bloc resection of lung cancer invading the chest wall is described. Using a minimally invasive surgical approach combined with neoadjuvant external beam radiotherapy, complete resection of an upper lobe carcinoma invading two rib segments was performed in a manner that permitted complete resection with curative intent and allowed for rapid recovery.