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 ...

[120] Another group reported resection outcomes of 219 patients with stage IA lung cancer, with 117 treated with lobectomy, 60 with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) wedge resection ...

Both lobectomy and segmentectomy demonstrated better outcomes than wedge resection, which had a 5 ... of care," said Christopher Seder, MD, a thoracic surgeon at Rush University Medical Center ...

and only one empyema developed after VATS for pulmonary wedge re-section. All postoperative infections (surgical site, pneumonia, empyema) were treated successfully with antibiotic or antifungal ...

"However, is SBRT worse than a wedge [resection] with 1 mm margin and one node taken? I can't say for sure." He urged that thoracic oncology teams put more patients on trials trying to answer the ...