Awake pulmonary metastasectomy Eugenio Pompeo, MD, Tommaso Claudio Mineo, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 133, Issue 4, Pages 960-966 (April 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.09.078 Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Schematic drawing (A) and intraoperative thoracoscopic view (B) of full lung palpation performed by a modified digital-instrumental method entailing forefinger palpating targeted lung tissue through the open ring (R1) and against the flat filled-in ring (R2) of the modified ring forceps showed in cartouche. In this way, fine bimanual-like lung palpation is likely to be performed as we previously performed through the transxiphoid VATS approach. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 133, 960-966DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.09.078) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Kaplan–Meier actuarial survival curves of the study groups. Censored patients at 12, 24, and 36 months in the awake and control groups were 10 versus 14, 6 versus 13, and 1 versus 12 patients, respectively. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 133, 960-966DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.09.078) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions