INTRODUCTION
Thymoma is a rare tumor for which there is little randomized evidence to guide treatment. Because of the lack of high-quality evidence, a formal consensus-based approach was used to… (More)
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2012
BACKGROUND
We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the effect of suction with water seal, compared with water seal alone, applied to intra pleural chest tubes on the duration… (More)
Acute lung injury (ALI) and its most severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), are characterised by high-protein pulmonary edema and severe hypoxaemic respiratory failure due to… (More)
BACKGROUND
Esophageal carcinoma can be managed primarily with either a surgical or non-surgical radiotherapeutic approach. Combination chemotherapy (CT) and radiotherapy (RT) has been incorporated… (More)
PURPOSE
To compare the quality-adjusted life expectancy and overall survival in patients with Stage I non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with either stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)… (More)
Carcinoma of the esophagus has one of the lowest possibilities of cure, with 5-year survival rates estimated to be approximately 10% overall; these rates are second only to hepatobiliary and… (More)
Minimally invasive surgery is a technique that provides numerous benefits to the patient, but presents challenges to the surgeon in that dexterity, hand-eye coordination and haptic perception are… (More)
Gastric cancer is a global health problem accounting for 10% of all new cancer cases and 12% of all cancer deaths worldwide. Many clinical trials and meta-analyses have explored the value of… (More)
BACKGROUND
Reports in the medical literature have described cases of extended survival of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with solitary metastatic disease who have received… (More)