The world’s first VATS lobectomy — surgery to remove one of the lobes of the lungs — using a single incision was reported in 2011. At the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, we performed the first ...
Lobectomy - when one of the five lobes is removed; Segmentectomy - when a segment is removed; Wedge resection - when a small section of the lung is removed; Pneumonectomy - when an entire lung is ...
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ), infects approximately one-fourth of the world’s population. While most infected individuals are asymptomatic, latent TB ...
A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...
This is an important piece of work that sheds light on our understanding of early lung development. There is solid evidence that there is a key new role for Svep1, which may be acting via FGF9. A more ...