Around the world, lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death. In the United States, it’s the number one killer of both men and women. And while smoking is still the primary cause of lung cancer, there are other risk factors as well. One of these is exposure to asbestos. Lung nodules are...

Do you know that cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease? In fact, one out of every four deaths in this country is due to cancer. And while there are many different types of cancer, some are more deadly than others. Esophageal cancer is one of those...

Thoracoscopy is a procedure that is minimally invasive and traditionally executed for the identification or/and treatment of pleural lung diseases. The practice of thoracoscopy is not new. A Swedish physician, H. C. Jacobeaus performed thoracoscopy for the first time in the year 1910 as an identification technique for patients with exudative pleuritis (1) for inspecting...

A surgical method used to eliminate a part of the small or large intestine is known as bowel resection. The diseased part of the intestine is taken out during the procedure and two healthy parts of the intestine are joined with each other. The resection of the small intestine is a frequently executed method in...

The most frequent injury that follows blunt trauma to the chest is the rib fracture and it accounts for fifty percent of non-penetrating damages. Of all the patients admitted to a hospital after getting a blunt trauma to the chest, ten percent of them have one or more ribs fractured (1). Chronic pain along with...

Cholecystectomy is the removal of the gall bladder that is among the most popularly performed surgical techniques in the US and every year, almost 1.2 million surgical removals of the gall bladder are performed. The gold standard for cholecystectomy was the open technique before 1991 that included carrying out a cholangiogram intraoperatively. After this procedure,...