Surgical Mediastinal Staging and Minimally Invasive Resection in the Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. KU Leuven
Introduction and background:
A complete resection is the cornerstone in the treatment of early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Over the last decades survival after surgery improved due to better preoperative staging, better postoperative care, multimodal treatment and the increase of lung parenchyma sparing surgical techniques, resulting in relative less pneumonectomies.
Recently, minimally invasive techniques, ...