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 ...

Chest wall tumors are uncommon; surgical repair involves both resection of the tumor and reconstruction of the chest structures. Diagnosis of the tumor is performed to determine whether it is benign ...

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 ...