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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and wounds.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Video-assisted thoracic surgery: experience 341 cases.

The diagnostic role of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in exudative pleural effusion and follow-up results in patients with nonspecific pleuritis

About 420 adult patients have thoracic surgery each year at Morriston Hospital and 650 per year at the University Hospital of Wales.

New centre could be set up for chest and lung surgery

Video assisted thoracic surgery for treatment of pneumothorax and lung resections: systematic review of randomised clinical trials.

Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery Outcomes for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax, Analysis of 56 Cases, Single University Hospital Experience

Continuous Erector Spinae Plane block for thoracic surgery in a pediatric patient.

Erector Spinae Plane Block Catheter Insertion under Ultrasound Guidance for Thoracic Surgery: Case Series of Three Patients

Shinichi Takamoto (President, The Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery [ASCVTS], Japan)

The Cape Town Declaration on Access to Cardiac Surgery in the Developing World

The incidence of right upper lobe collapse when comparing a right sided double lumen tube versus a modified left double lumen tube for left sided thoracic surgery. Anesth Analg 2000; 90(3): 535-40.

COMPARISON OF CLINICAL EFFICACY OF RIGHT VERSUS LEFT SIDED DOUBLE LUMEN ENDOBRONCHIAL TUBE IN CONJUNCTION WITH FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPE

Additional chapters describe the evolution of general thoracic surgery. Disease chapters include information on clinical presentation, pathologic changes, surgical management, operative results, and prognosis.

Shields' General Thoracic Surgery, 8th Edition; 2 volume set (online access included)

Currently, thoracic surgery is provided at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff as well as Morriston - but this could be moved out of the capital following recommendation from an independent panel.

Plans to move lung surgery from Cardiff to single centre in Swansea take step forward; An estimated 150 lung cancer operations a year would be provided at the new centre

Thus, in recent years, minimally invasive procedures have become preferable in thoracic surgery, as is the case in all other surgical branches.

Robotic surgery in mediastinal cystic pathologies

Keshavjee, "Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura," The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol.

Solitary Fibrous Tumor: Case Report of Intrapulmonary Location

Bearing in mind the patient's comorbidities, a decision was made for Endo-ACAB, rather than conventional cardiac artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), which took place 18 days after the initial thoracic surgery. 3 ports were utilised to harvest the left internal mammary artery (LIMA), and a submammary incision was performed in the 5th intercostal space to enable anastomosis to the LAD.

Minimally Invasive Bilateral Lung Resections and CABG through 5 Ports

Micro-invasive thoracic surgery, especially VATS, has become the mainstream of lung cancer resections (4,5).