If your doctor spots something out of the ordinary on your chest X-ray or CT scan, they may ask you to get a lung biopsy. In this procedure, a doctor removes a small sample of cells from your lung and ...

Background: Postoperative infections, as related to risk factors, in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) procedures have been studied infrequently. Conclusions: This ...

Surgical lung biopsies that are performed via video-assisted thoracic surgery are safe for obtaining histopathologic tissue for select patients. Surgical lung biopsies (SLBs) that are performed via ...

Using tiny spheres of radioactive liquid to guide surgeons as they remove potentially cancerous material in the lungs is safe and more effective than other techniques, researchers report. Using tiny ...

(HealthDay News) — Surgical biopsy samples can be safely collected in patients with stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and can inform appropriate personalized therapy, according to a study ...

A lung biopsy is a procedure that involves removing a small tissue sample from the lung. An interventional radiologist (a doctor who specializes in procedures using medical imaging) usually performs ...

This study of 346 consecutive patients confirms that VATS surgery can be performed with low morbidity and no mortality. The cumulative incidence of postoperative infections (including surgical site ...