@article{VATS5125,
author = {Benjamin Wei and Alex Abdullayev},
title = {Vein-first vs. artery-first: “does the order of vessel ligation during pulmonary lobectomy for NSLC affect circulating tumor cells and patient survival?”},
journal = {Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery},
volume = {4},
number = {0},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {In the May 2019 issue of JAMA Surgery, Wei and colleagues report the results of a fascinating two part study: the first consists of a multicenter, randomized clinical trial evaluating whether ligating effluent veins first during thoracoscopic lobectomy can reduce the dissemination of tumor cells in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (clinical stage I–II) (1); the second comprises a propensity-matched retrospective analysis of overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients undergoing vein-first versus artery-first lobectomies.},
issn = {2519-0792}, url = {https://vats.amegroups.org/article/view/5125}
}