Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy is both safe and effective for diagnosing small and peripheral lung lesions. Read now!

BRISTOL, Tenn. — G. Darby Pope, MD, FACS, has joined Ballad Health CVA Heart Institute, specializing in thoracic surgery.

PDT may help your cancer treatment in other ways. too. It can damage blood vessels in lung tumors, keeping them from getting the blood they need to grow. It can also trigger your immune system to ...

Four patients underwent bronchoscopy to evaluate a cavitary lesion (one patient), pulmonic infiltrate (two patients), and a lingular mass (one patient). In all cases, an endobronchial obstruction ...

H. Ma and S. Srivastava are joint first authors of this article. R. Sundar and P. Tan are joint corresponding and senior authors of this article.

A tumour vaccine is an agent used for cancer therapy or cancer prevention that elicits an immune response and induces protective immunity against specific molecules (antigens) expressed on tumour ...

In order to identify the pathological type, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) and transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) were used to assess the lesion organization twice. However, the pathological ...

Methods Searches for appropriate studies were undertaken on PubMed and Clinical Trials Databases using the search terms COPD, emphysema, lung volume reduction and endobronchial valves. Results The ...

When is ablation used for liver cancer? Ablation techniques can be used for people with a few small liver tumors, especially when surgery is not a good option (because of poor health or reduced liver ...

Important factors to consider include the size of the tumor(s) and if nearby blood vessels are affected. Larger tumors or those that invade blood vessels are more likely to come back in the liver or ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Post-obstructive pneumonia is an infection in the lung caused by a blockage in one of ...