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JTCVS Open, 2022 Objectives: The aim of this study is to compare the postoperative complications, perioperative course, and survival among patients from the multicentric Spanish Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery Group database who received video-assisted thoracic surgery ...
Julio Sesma, MD +60 more
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PLoS ONE, 2014 BackgroundThoracic surgeries including thoracotomy and VATS are some of the highest risk procedures that often lead to CPSP, with or without a neuropathic component.
Zhiyou Peng +5 more
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Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2020 Although adjacent segmental disease after posterior thoracic fusion surgery is rare, thoracic myelopathy due to ossification of the yellow ligament in the lower thoracic spine could develop because of mechanical stress when the lower instrumented ...
Toru Funayama +10 more
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The Growing Popularity of MISS: A Focus on Endoscopic Surgery for the Cervical and Thoracic Spine [PDF]
Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique, 2023 This editorial article explores advances in the field of spinal surgery, focusing on minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS) and its applications in treating cervical and thoracic spine conditions.
Junseok W Hur +3 more
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Extraction of Pulmonary Airway in CT Scans Using Deep Fully Convolutional Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Accurate, automatic and complete extraction of pulmonary airway in medical images plays an important role in analyzing thoracic CT volumes such as lung cancer detection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and bronchoscopic-assisted surgery navigation.
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Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data [PDF]
PLOS ONE 11(4) (2016) e0151470, 2015 Understanding the causes and patient impacts of surgical adverse events will help improve systems and operational practices to avoid incidents in the future. We analyzed the adverse events data related to robotic systems and instruments used in minimally invasive surgery, reported to the U.S. FDA MAUDE database from January 2000 to December 2013.
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Limitations of ROC on Imbalanced Data: Evaluation of LVAD Mortality Risk Scores [PDF]
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2021 Jul 30, 2020 Objective: This study illustrates the ambiguity of ROC in evaluating two classifiers of 90-day LVAD mortality. This paper also introduces the precision recall curve (PRC) as a supplemental metric that is more representative of LVAD classifiers performance in predicting the minority class.
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Open thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair after previous abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery [PDF]
, 2008 ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to provide insight into the incidence of thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair following previous infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery and to determine whether thoracic or ...
Mojibian, Hamid +4 more
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Regional anesthesia and pain medicine, 2020 Background The long-term incidence of chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) after thoracic surgery has not yet been reported. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of 4218 consecutive patients who underwent thoracic surgery for ...
Susie Yoon +6 more
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Defining conversion therapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 7-9, January 2023., 2023 A multimodality treatment conference with experts from across East Asia was held to establish a consensus for conversion therapy. An agreement was reached that conversion therapy was defined as surgery or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) aiming at cure after initial treatment for tumors that were initially unresectable due to adjacent organ invasion or distant ...
Satoru Matsuda +14 more
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