Before your surgery, you’ll meet your surgical team. You’ll see your thoracic surgeon ... ribs apart to remove a lobe of your lung and take a biopsy — carefully breaking or dividing ...

Lung biopsy showed severe arteriolitis ... From the Thoracic Services, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, the Thoracic Surgery Service, Boston City Hospital, and the departments of Medicine ...

This investigation sprung from a lack of current knowledge on the impact of nonmalignant results following thoracic surgery for lung ... to pursue surgical lung biopsy in patients screened for ...

Lung cancer tests include imaging scans ... Another name for this procedure is video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) biopsy. Open biopsy. This procedure is done while you are asleep.

“Over the last couple of years, St. Luke’s has been using the da Vinci Xi for thoracic surgery ... Whether it’s for lung biopsy or lung cancer surgery, robotic systems bring a great ...

Patients with oligometastatic lung cancer may live longer with surgery, but experts stress the need for multidisciplinary ...

minimally invasive thoracic surgery technique that uses a robotically guided, ultra-thin catheter to target lesions in hard-to-reach areas of the lung. Boudreau was undergoing a biopsy when ...

The surgery was successful. However, the singer was back in the hospital two days later with enlarged lymph nodes, which required a biopsy and would put his career at risk. “The doctor did warn ...

and is near the edge of the lung, you can go in and biopsy the lymph nodes to make sure that the lymph nodes are clean,” Dr. Nasser Khaled Altorki, chief of thoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine ...

With the surgery, patients have a minimally invasive lung nodule biopsy under general anesthesia ... is a surgical oncologist with a focus in thoracic surgery at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer ...

in his lung. "And it was in a bad location for biopsy like I mean it was very small, very deep," said Dr. Abbas El-Sayed Abbas, chief of Thoracic Surgery at Lifespan and Chief of Thoracic Oncology ...