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Controversies in Thoracic Surgery, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 33-2 - April 14, 2023
- Editors: Lana Y. Schumacher, David C. Griffin
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 9 3 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 9 3 2 - 4
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.
Provides in-depth reviews on the latest updates in the field, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
thoracic surgery, controversies, lung cancer, esophageal cancer
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Esophageal Perforation: Is Surgery Still Necessary?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Physiology
- Grading severity
- Management
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in 2023: When to Operate and Current Endoscopic Options for Antireflux Therapy
- Key points
- Introduction
- STRETTA: radiofrequency ablation
- Transoral fundoplication
- Outcomes
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Achalasia: Surgery Versus Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Classification of achalasia
- Overview of management
- Our approach to Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy and Heller Myotomy with Dor Fundoplication
- Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy versus Heller Myotomy with Fundoplication
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Tracheobronchoplasty: Indications and Best Approaches
- Key points
- Introduction/Background/Prevalence
- Functional and quality of life outcomes in open tracheobronchomalacia surgery
- Outcomes of robotic tracheobronchoplasty
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Declaration of Interests
- Supplementary data
- Pulmonary Metastasectomy: Indications, Best Practices, and Evolving Role in the Future
- Key points
- Introduction/history/definitions/background
- Nature of the problem/diagnosis
- Role of surgery as the local therapy of choice for pulmonary metastases
- Patient selection
- Timing of surgery for pulmonary metastases
- Surgical technique
- Future of local management for pulmonary metastatic disease
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Current Management of Carcinoid Tumor: When Is a Wedge Enough?
- Key points
- Introduction and epidemiology
- Classification and staging
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Discussion: when is a wedge enough?
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Sublobar Resections: Indications and Approaches
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative planning/surgical treatment options
- Deciding between sublobar resection versus lobectomy (primary lung cancer)
- Deciding between wedge resection versus segmentectomy
- Procedural approach
- Technical details of individual segmentectomies
- Pulmonary function
- Oncologic
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Versus Ablation Versus Surgery for Early-Stage Lung Cancer in High-Risk Patients
- Key points
- Introduction/background
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Current Management of Stage IIIA (N2) Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Role of Perioperative Immunotherapy, and Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
- Key points
- Introduction
- Recent advances in locally resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
- Controversies in stage III disease
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neoadjuvant Strategies for Esophageal Cancer: Role of Immunotherapy and Positron emission tomography (PET)-Guided Strategies
- Key points
- Background
- Differences in histological subtypes
- Management of locally advanced esophageal carcinoma
- Positron emission tomography (PET)-directed therapy
- Summary and future directions
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Surgical Approach to Esophagectomy Post CheckMate 577: Do Lymph Nodes Matter if Everyone Gets Adjuvant Immunotherapy?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Discussion points
- Disclosures
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 33-2
- Published: April 14, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323939317
- eBook ISBN: 9780323939324
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Lana Y. Schumacher
Affiliations and expertise
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General HospitalDG
David C. Griffin
Affiliations and expertise
Intermountain Thoracic, Lung, and Esophageal Surgery