List of works by Luca Bertolaccini

"Old people suffer the ravages of the years": changes of treatments in elderly patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer.

scientific article published on June 2015

'Six sigma approach' - an objective strategy in digital assessment of postoperative air leaks: a prospective randomised study

scientific article

(18)Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography total glycolytic volume in thymic epithelial neoplasms evaluation: a reproducible image biomarker.

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

18-Fluorine fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the pretreatment evaluation of thymic epithelial neoplasms: a metabolic biopsy confirmed by Ki-67 expression.

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

2016 Annual report from the Italian VATS Group.

scientific article published in March 2018

A Delphi Consensus report from the "Prolonged Air Leak: A Survey" study group on prevention and management of postoperative air leaks after minimally invasive anatomical resections

scientific article published in 2022

A benchmarking project on the quality of previous guidelines about the management of malignant pleural effusion from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Pleural Diseases Working Group

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: the choice of localization technique for non-palpable solitary pulmonary nodule

scientific article published on 06 September 2016

A comparison of mutation status in tissue and plasma cell-free DNA detected by ADx-ARMS in advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

A golden key can open any door of new protocol: the use of continuous digital measurement for postoperative air leak

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A methodological evaluation of the published consensus statements, recommendations and guidelines about surgical management in the course of coronavirus disease pandemic

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

A practical overview on probability distributions

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A project to assess the quality of the published guidelines for managing primary spontaneous pneumothorax from the Italian Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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A very early stage of obstructive fibrinous tracheal pseudo-membrane formation

scientific article published on June 2012

Air pollution, weather variations and primary spontaneous pneumothorax.

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An overview of the use of artificial neural networks in lung cancer research

scientific article published on April 2017

Analysis of spontaneous pneumothorax in the city of Cuneo: environmental correlations with meteorological and air pollutant variables.

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Anatomical segmentectomy versus pulmonary lobectomy for stage I non-small-cell lung cancer: patients selection and outcomes from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons database analysis

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

Are the fallacies of the P value finally ended?

scientific article published on June 2016

Biologic therapy and gene therapy in the multimodality treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma

scientific article

Bronchial anastomosis: to wrap or not to wrap?

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Bronchial reacutization and gastroesophageal reflux: is there a potential clinical correlation?

scientific article published on August 2016

Bronchoscopic management of prolonged air leak

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

COUNTERPOINT: Should Segmentectomy Rather Than Lobectomy Be the Operation of Choice for Early- Stage Non- Small Cell Lung Cancer? No.

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Can a standardised Ventilation Mechanical Test for quantitative intraoperative air leak grading reduce the length of hospital stay after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy?

Case management: an up-to-date review of literature and a proposal of a county utilization

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Chondroblastoma of the rib in a 47-year-old man: a case report with a systematic review of literature.

scientific article published in October 2017

Commentary: The power (under control) of meta-analysis in the synthesis of clinical knowledge

scientific article published on 26 January 2019

Commentary: The sublobar resections and the difference between a conjecture and a theorem

scientific article published in 2022

Comparison of digital tomosynthesis and computed tomography for lung nodule detection in SOS screening program.

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Contribution of β-adrenergic receptors to exercise-induced bronchodilatation in healthy humans

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

Correlation sometimes implies causation: possible roles of correlation analysis between 18 fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and thymic epithelial neoplasms.

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Corrigendum to 'Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: a consensus report from the Uniportal VATS Interest Group (UVIG) of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)'  [Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2019;56:224-9]

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Corrigendum to 'What counts more: the patient, the surgical technique, or the hospital? A multivariable analysis of factors affecting perioperative complications of pulmonary lobectomy by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery from a large nationwide

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Cost-effectiveness analysis of sealant impact in management of moderate intraoperative alveolar air leaks during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in December 2017

Current practices in the management of malignant pleural effusions: a survey among members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons

scientific article published on 31 December 2016

Deep impact of ultrasound in the intensive care unit: the "ICU-sound" protocol

scientific article

Devising the guidelines: the techniques of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery-postoperative management and enhanced recovery after surgery

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Diagnosis and treatment of early and locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: The 2019 AIOM (Italian Association of Medical Oncology) clinical practice guidelines

scientific article published on 25 January 2020

Diagnostic performance of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the management of solitary pulmonary nodule: a meta-analysis.

scientific article published in April 2018

Diaphragmatic and pericardial reconstruction after surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma.

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Digital chest tomosynthesis: the 2017 updated review of an emerging application.

scientific article published in March 2018

Digital tomosynthesis in lung cancer: state of the art

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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) in thoracic surgical oncology

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Enhanced recovery after surgery and video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: the Italian VATS Group surgical protocol.

scientific article published in March 2018

Enhanced recovery after surgery protocols in video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomies: the best is yet still to come?

scientific article

Epidemiology and management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a systematic review

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Ergon-trial: ergonomic evaluation of single-port access versus three-port access video-assisted thoracic surgery

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Erratum to nodal management and upstaging of disease: initial results from the Italian VATS Lobectomy Registry

scientific article published in October 2017

Euclidean Geometry Versus Metabolic Biochemistry in the Prognostic Evaluation of Thymic Epithelial Tumors

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Extra-pleural pneumonectomy

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Fat but fit for the improved survival in lung cancer surgery

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Focus on specific disease-part 2: the European Society of Thoracic Surgery chest wall database

Four arm robotic-assisted pulmonary resection-right upper lobectomy: how to do it.

scientific article published in September 2017

Four arms robotic-assisted pulmonary resection-left lower lobectomy: how to do it.

scientific article published on June 2017

Four arms robotic-assisted pulmonary resection-left upper lobectomy: how to do it

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Four arms robotic-assisted pulmonary resection-right lower/middle lobectomy: how to do it.

scientific article published in January 2018

Geometric and ergonomic characteristics of the uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) approach

scientific article published on March 2016

Geometrical characteristics of uniportal VATS.

scientific article published on August 2013

High-resolution computed tomography in the management of the first episode of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: are we sure that more is better?

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Histological findings in patients with suspected mediastinal lymphoma relapse according to positive positron emission tomography scan during follow-up: a large retrospective analysis in 96 patients

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Home-management of malignant pleural effusion with an indwelling pleural catheter: ten years experience

scientific article published on 06 September 2012

How to create a surgical database?

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Immunotherapy in the neoadjuvant settings: a new challenge for the thoracic surgeon?

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Indwelling Pleural Catheters: A Clinical Option in Trapped Lung

scientific article published on February 2017

Is a positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan useful in the staging of thymic epithelial neoplasms?

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

It sometimes happens: late tracheal rupture after total thyroidectomy.

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

Learning curve and established phase for uniportal VATS lobectomies: the Papworth experience.

scientific article published on January 2017

Less is more: lung-sparing direct repair of a traumatic rupture of the bronchus intermedius

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

Letter to the editor. Re:. Initial experience with a synthetic sealant PleuraSeal™ after pulmonary resections: a prospective study with retrospective case matched controls

scientific article published on 29 October 2010

Lung Cancer Update 2017: from the test tube to the bed.

scientific article published in March 2018

Lung cancer detection with digital chest tomosynthesis: baseline results from the observational study SOS.

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Lung cancer detection with digital chest tomosynthesis: first round results from the SOS observational study.

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Lung cancer surgery in oligometastatic patients: outcome and survival

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Lymph Node Involvement in Deep Infiltrating Intestinal Endometriosis: Does It Really Mean Anything?

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Lymphnodal micrometastases in NSCLC: where do we stand?

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Magnetic anchoring guidance system in video-assisted thoracic surgery

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Malignant pleural effusions: review of treatment and our experience.

scientific article published on January 2007

Management of malignant pleural effusions in patients with trapped lung with indwelling pleural catheter: how to do it

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Methodology and timing of standardization

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Molecular analysis driven video-assisted thoracic surgery resections in bilateral synchronous lung cancers: from the test tube to the operatory room.

scientific article published in October 2017

Moving beyond the boundary: the emerging role of video-assisted thoracic surgery for bronchoplastic resections

scientific article published on September 2014

Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes: the awarded Cox proportional hazards model

scientific article published on November 2016

National adoption of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy: the Italian VATS register evaluation.

scientific article published in January 2018

Nodal management and upstaging of disease: initial results from the Italian VATS Lobectomy Registry.

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Non-intubated thoracoscopic lobectomies for lung cancer: an exploratory systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Not palpable? Role of radio-guided video-assisted thoracic surgery for nonpalpable solitary pulmonary nodules

scientific article published on 28 March 2012

Oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer: the pivotal role of nodal status

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Open repair of pectus carinatum

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Opening and closing the doors of the lockdown in Italy without forgetting lung cancer patients

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Pathophysiological mechanism of post-lobectomy air leaks

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Pleural pressure theory revisited: a role for capillary equilibrium.

scientific article published on April 2017

Preliminary Results of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Assisted Tracheal Sleeve Pneumonectomy for Cancer

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Prospective evaluation of EBUS-TBNA specimens for programmed death-ligand 1 expression in non-small cell lung cancer patients: a pilot study

scientific article published on 12 July 2021

Pulmonary nodules in African migrants caused by chronic schistosomiasis.

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Radioguided video-assisted resection of non-palpable solitary pulmonary nodule/ground glass opacity: how to do it

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Rebuttal From Drs Bertolaccini and Solli.

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Recommendations for Implementing Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose Computed Tomography in Europe

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Reorganization of thoracic surgery activity in a national high-volume comprehensive cancer centre in the Italian epicentre of coronavirus disease 2019

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Reply to Migliore and Hirai

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Results of Li-Tho trial: a prospective randomized study on effectiveness of LigaSure® in lung resections

scientific article published on 12 September 2013

Risk is not our business: safety of thoracic surgery in patients using antiplatelet therapy.

scientific article published on 25 November 2011

Robot-assisted lobectomy for lung cancer in the presence of intraoperatively discovered broncho-vascular anomalies affecting right upper and middle lobes

scientific article published on 06 December 2016

Robotic internal mammary lymphadenectomy: another possible minimally invasive approach to sampling lymph nodes in breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Robotic surgery, video-assisted thoracic surgery, and open surgery for early stage lung cancer: comparison of costs and outcomes at a single institute.

scientific article published in February 2018

Safety of lymphadenectomy during video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: analysis from a national database

Segmentectomy versus lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Single-port video-assisted thoracic surgery resection: the Copernican revolution of a geometrical approach in thoracic surgery?

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax in patient with previous thoracoscopic pleurodesis for right recurrent pneumothorax

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Spread patterns and effectiveness for surgery after ultrasound-guided rectus sheath block in adult day-case patients scheduled for umbilical hernia repair

scientific article published on July 2015

Standardized uptake value and radiological density attenuation as predictive and prognostic factors in patients with solitary pulmonary nodules: our experience on 1,592 patients.

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Study designs in thoracic surgery research

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Subxiphoid video-assisted major lung resections: the Believers' speech

scientific article published on April 2017

Surgery for the treatment of the tuberculosis-destroyed lung: to protect or not to protect the bronchial stump?

scientific article published on 07 May 2012

Surgery or stereotactic ablative radiation therapy: how will be treated operable patients with early stage not small cell lung cancer in the next future?

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Surgical and endoscopic treatment for COPD: patients selection, techniques and results

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Surgical approach in oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

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Surgical approaches in patients with oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

scientific article published in January 2018

Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: the phoenix of thoracic surgery?

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Surgical treatment of synchronous multiple neuroendocrine lung tumours (case series): is more always better?

scientific article published in November 2017

Synchronous Robot-Assisted Pulmonary and Urologic Resections for Cancer

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Technological advancements in thoracic surgery: a brief introduction to the future

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

The "ending neglect" of roentgenograms in penetrating chest trauma

scientific article published on December 2010

The Geometric and Ergonomic Appeal of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

scientific article published on 01 November 2017

The Statistical point of view of Quality: the Lean Six Sigma methodology

scientific article published on April 2015

The Very Experienced Time-honoUred Surgeons (VETUS) project

The biostatistical minimum

scientific article published in October 2017

The chicken-and-egg debate about statistics and research

scientific article published on September 2014

The everlasting story of malignant pleural mesothelioma: where do we stand?

scientific article

The game theory in thoracic surgery: from the intuitions of Luca Pacioli to the operating rooms management

scientific article published on November 2015

The hearth of mathematical and statistical modelling during the Coronavirus pandemic

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

The importance of being solid or partially solid for a solitary pulmonary nodule

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

The pulmonary nodule "discovered" by pneumonia: a case report

scientific article published on February 2017

The radical approach to the oligometastatic not small cell lung cancer patient: which? how? when? where?

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

The relationship between meteorological variations and the onset of spontaneous pneumothorax.

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

The relativity of operative time on the outcomes of the video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomies

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

The role of apoptosis in hepatic graft rejection

scientific article published in October 2002

The sound of silence: the harmonic analysis in thoracic surgery

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

The standardize uptake value: light and shade of positron emission tomography.

scientific article published in June 2011

The state of the art of the minimally invasive thoracic surgery in Italy

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The surgeon thunderbolts in 2016 lung cancer literature.

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The “Balloon-Like” Sign: Differential Diagnosis between Postoperative Air Leak and Residual Pleural Space: Radiological Findings and Clinical Implications of the Young–Laplace Equation

scientific article published in 2022

There is a hole in the lung!

scientific article published on December 2010

Thoracic surgeons, mathematics, and statisticians: a new multidisciplinary team?

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Thoracoscopic lobectomy for locally advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer is a feasible and safe approach: analysis from multi-institutional national database

scientific article published on 07 November 2017

Thymoma and the increased risk of developing extrathymic malignancies: a multicentre study

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Tips and tricks of the propensity score methods in the thoracic surgery research

scientific article published on April 2017

To seed or not to seed: the open question of mesothelioma intervention tract metastases.

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Transaxillary access to aortopulmonary window and paraaortic nodes

scientific article published on 6 December 2013

Transthoracic needle aspiration in solitary pulmonary nodule

scientific article published on February 2017

Treatment of Chylothorax after Lung Resection: Indications, Timing, and Outcomes

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: The 2019 AIOM (Italian Association of Medical Oncology) clinical practice guidelines

scientific article published on 28 December 2019

Treatment of late tracheomediastinal fistula following diagnostic mediastinoscopy treated by multiple pedicled muscle flaps

scientific article published on 15 March 2011

Treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: 2018 guidelines of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM)

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Tubeless thoracic surgery: ready for prime time?

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Uniportal non-intubated thoracic surgery

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Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for pneumothorax and blebs/bullae

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: a consensus report from the Uniportal VATS Interest Group (UVIG) of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in hemothorax

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Usefulness of 18-F FDG PET/CT in the pre-treatment evaluation of thymic epithelial neoplasms

scientific article published on 25 March 2011

Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in thoracic surgery patients: an international survey

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Video-assisted thoracic surgery for extended lung cancer disease: moving into the borderlands

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery bronchial sleeve lobectomy

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery en bloc chest wall resection

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

What is the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Uniportal VATS Interest Group (UVIG)?

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

What is the role of lymph nodal metastases and lymphadenectomy in the surgical treatment and prognosis of thymic carcinomas and carcinoids?

scientific article published on 04 September 2014

Why should we prefer the single port access thoracic surgery?

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Work in progress report of a multicentre retrospective observational study to evaluate the association between the airflows and the intrapleural pressures digitally recorded after video-assisted lobectomy

publication published on 01 August 2021

[Cancer immunotherapy. A future therapeutical choice?]

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

[Hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). A clinical and genetic entity]

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

[The role of surgery in the treatment of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer]

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

[The treatment of malignant pleural effusions: the experience of a multidisciplinary thoracic endoscopy group]

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

[Treatment of pain in the oncologic patient]

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

[Utilization of a multidisciplinary protocol for postoperative pain treatment]

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

eComment: About the localization techniques of solitary pulmonary nodules

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

eComment: the Six Sigma approach: from mobile phones to chest tubes.

scientific article published in November 2011

eComment: the evaluation of sample size: vice and virtue of statistics?

scientific article published in November 2011

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