Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with better long-term survival than wedge resection for patients with early-stage non ...

A segmentectomy is a surgical procedure that removes one of the ten anatomic segments of a lung. It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the ...

Findings were similar for lung cancer-specific survival ... there are alternatives in the less invasive sublobar resection surgeries, namely wedge resection or segmentectomy.