Uniportal versus multiportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung cancer: safety and advantages in employing complementary intraoperative lung ultrasound

摘要

Surgery with radical intent is still the cornerstone of early stage non-small cell lung cancer therapy and anatomical lobectomy (followed by sampling or dissection of mediastinal lymph nodes) is regarded as the current surgical standard therapy. This recommendation is based on the evidence of decreased local recurrence and increased long-term survival in patients who underwent lobectomy compared with those subjected to wedge resection or segmentectomy ( ). Limited resections have, therefore, to be reserved only for patients with poor performance status.