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    Clinical outcomes of left upper segmentectomy vs. lobectomy for early non-small-cell lung cancer: a nationwide database study in Japan

    Given that left upper lobe and right upper and middle lobes share a similar anatomy, segmentectomy, such as upper division and lingulectomy, should yield identical oncological clearance to left upper lobectomy...

    Shinya Tane, Jiro Okami, Yoshimasa Maniwa, Yasushi Shintani, Hiroyuki Ito in Surgery Today (2024)

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    Outcomes of surgical resection for pulmonary metastasis from pancreatic cancer

    As the number of long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer is expected to increase thanks to recent advances in multidisciplinary treatment and earlier diagnoses of pancreatic cancer, we are likely to encounter...

    Yudai Miyashita, Naoko Ose, Jiro Okami, Koji Takami, Yasushi Sakamaki in Surgery Today (2023)

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    Non-adjacent interlobar lymph node metastasis distant from small-sized peripheral non-small cell lung cancer

    The optimal extent of lymph node dissection (LND) during segmentectomy is unclear. During segmentectomy, it is more challenging to dissect the non-adjacent interlobar lymph node (non-aiLN) away from the primar...

    Tomohiro Maniwa, Toru Kimura, Masayuki Ohue, Yasushi Shintani, Jiro Okami in Surgery Today (2022)

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    Mediastinal lymph node dissection in older patients with non-small cell lung cancer

    We evaluated the impact of omitting mediastinal lymph node dissection (MLND) from the surgical treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in older patients.

    Tomohiro Maniwa, Toru Kimura, Masayuki Ohue, Jiro Okami in Surgery Today (2022)

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    Prognosis associated with surgery for non-small cell lung cancer and synchronous brain metastasis

    Several reports have described extended survival after aggressive surgical treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and synchronous brain metastasis. This retrospective analysis assesses the prognostic...

    Takashi Kanou, Jiro Okami, Toshiteru Tokunaga, Ayako Fujiwara in Surgery Today (2014)

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    Surgical resection of pulmonary metastases from meningioma: Report of a case

    Meningiomas rarely metastasize, and little information on pulmonary metastasectomy from meningioma has been documented. We herein report a case of a potentially curative resection for meningioma that metastasi...

    Ryu Kanzaki, Masahiko Higashiyama, Ayako Fujiwara, Toshiteru Tokunaga in Surgery Today (2011)

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    Innate immune therapy with a Bacillus Calmette-Guérin cell wall skeleton after radical surgery for non-small cell lung cancer: A case-control study

    We investigated whether adjuvant immunotherapy with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) cell wall skeleton (CWS) and surgical resection was better than resection, with or without other adjuvant therapy, for patient...

    Ken Kodama, Masahiko Higashiyama, Koji Takami, Kazuyuki Oda, Jiro Okami in Surgery Today (2009)