A wedge resection can be done either through a thoracotomy (open chest surgery) or via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). VATS is a less invasive procedure than thoracotomy, but it's not ...

If a smaller area of the lung requires removal, surgeons perform a wedge resection. They often use video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), which is keyhole surgery using a camera. It uses smaller ...

It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the segment is removed along its anatomic boundaries. Both segmentectomy and wedge resection procedures ...

Conversion to thoracotomy was required in 13% of T1 ... the pathology of 31 T1N0M0 lesions that had been diagnosed by wedge resection, which then proceeded to completion lobectomy.

This article summarizes published data demonstrating that intrapleural hemorrhage in this condition frequently presents an indication for emergency thoracotomy. Preoperative management and the ...