The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 19-25 , July 2010

Four-arm robotic lobectomy for the treatment of early-stage lung cancer

Preliminary data read at the Eighty-ninth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, May 9–13, 2009.

  • Giulia Veronesi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Giulia Veronesi, MD, Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy.
    • ,
  • Domenico Galetta, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Patrick Maisonneuve, DipEng

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Franca Melfi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale Cisanello, Pisa, Italy
    • ,
  • Ralph Alexander Schmid, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Alessandro Borri, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Fernando Vannucci, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Lorenzo Spaggiari, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
    • School of Medicine, University of Milan, Italy

Received 29 April 2009 ,Revised 17 September 2009 ,Accepted 23 October 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01390-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.10.025

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 19-25 , July 2010

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