Thoracic Surgery: Recent Developments and Future Challenges
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Pulmonology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 308
Special Issue Editors
Interests: minimally invasive thoracic surgery; ERAS; VATS; sublobar resetions; postoperative risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As already broadly reported, the role of minimally invasive thoracic surgery (VATS/RATS) has emerged, showing a great contribution in the early postoperative period after pulmonary resection for cancer.
Moreover, perioperative patient management based on personalized nodule localization, tailored surgical procedures (e.g., sublobar resections, sleeve resections, etc.) and more patient-centred standardized pathways of care (e.g., ERAS) are of primary importance to enhance perioperative course disputing the traditional standards of care. In this context, the new target therapies play a crucial rule in managing lung neoplasms before or after the surgical phase.
This Special Issue will highlight the recent developments and future challenges in the management of patients with lung cancer, analyzing how these modalities are substantially revolutioning patient care and improving outcomes in the battle against this disease.
The new advances in this field and the value of recent scientific achievements in assessing the current therapeutic horizon for lung cancer patients will also be covered in this Special Issue.
Dr. Marco Andolfi
Dr. Lucio Cagini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- VATS
- RATS
- ERAS
- sublobar resection
- minimally invasive thoracic surgery
- target therapy
- nodule localization
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