Shinya Tane, Jiro Okami, Yoshimasa Maniwa, Yasushi Shintani, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ohtsuka, Shinichi Toyooka, Takeshi Mori, Shun-Ichi Watanabe, Masayuki Chida, Shunsuke Endo, Ryoichi Nakanishi, Mitsutaka Kadokura, Hidemi Suzuki, Etsuo Miyaoka, Ichiro Yoshino, Hiroshi Date
PURPOSE: Given that left upper lobe and right upper and middle lobes share a similar anatomy, segmentectomy, such as upper division and lingulectomy, should yield identical oncological clearance to left upper lobectomy. We compared the prognosis of segmentectomy with that of lobectomy for early stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the left upper lobe. METHODS: We retrospectively examined 2115 patients who underwent segmentectomy or lobectomy for c-stage I (TNM 8th edition) NSCLC in the left upper lobe in 2010...
April 18, 2024: Surgery Today