Sensory substitution increases robotic surgical performance and sets the ground for a mediating role of the sense of embodiment: a systematic review

Authors: Cesari, Valentina ^a, Melfi, Franca ^b, Gemignani, Angelo ^a, Menicucci, Danilo ^{a, ∗}

Source: In Heliyon November 2023 9(11)

Prognostic Stratification of Epithelioid Pleural Mesothelioma Based on the Hippo-TEADs Network.

Authors: Poma, Anello Marcello, Bruno, Rossella, Petrini, Iacopo, Di Stefano, Iosè, Celi, Alessandra, Sbrana, Andrea, Cappelli, Sabrina, Chella, Antonio, Melfi, Franca, Lucchi, Marco, Alì, Greta

Source: Cancers; Feb2025, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p469, 11p

Subject Terms: MACROPHAGES, PLEURAL tumors, CANCER patients, RETROSPECTIVE studies, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, GENE expression, RNA, MEDICAL records, ACQUISITION of data, ONCOGENES, MESOTHELIOMA, HIPPO signaling pathway, COMPARATIVE studies, PROGRESSION-free survival, IMMUNE checkpoint proteins, OVERALL survival

Gender Representation in Cardiothoracic Surgical Academia: A Call to Support Women Across the Globe.

Authors: Pompili, Cecilia, Costa, Rita, Cangut, Busra, Opitz, Isabelle, Figueroa, Paula Ugalde, Molena, Daniela, Backhus, Leah, Blackmon, Shanda, Fiedler, Amy, Kluin, Jolanda, Cleuziou, Julie, Melfi, Franca, Fuller, Stephanie, Wood, Douglas E., Antonoff, Mara B.

Source: Annals of Thoracic Surgery; Feb2025, Vol. 119 Issue 2, p274-279, 6p

Long-Term Oncological Outcomes Related to Lymphadenectomy in Clinical Stage I NSCLC: A Multicenter Retrospective Experience.

Authors: Manfredini, Beatrice, Zirafa, Carmelina Cristina, Stefani, Alessandro, Romano, Gaetano, Alì, Greta, Morganti, Riccardo, Ceccarelli, Ilaria, Davini, Federico, Filosso, Pier Luigi, Melfi, Franca

Source: Current Oncology; Jan2025, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p31, 12p

Subject Terms: THORACIC surgery, LYMPHADENECTOMY, LUNG cancer, LYMPH nodes, LOBECTOMY (Lung surgery), NON-small-cell lung carcinoma

EACTS Innovation Hub and Committee—The coming wave for building the future of cardiothoracic surgery.

Authors: Beyersdorf, Friedhelm, Bavaria, Joseph, Falk, Volkmar, Melfi, Franca, Myers, Patrick O, Siepe, Matthias, Hazekamp, Mark

Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery; Jan2025, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p1-8, 8p

Subject Terms: HEART assist devices, BIOPRINTING, BIOENGINEERING, VIDEO-assisted thoracic surgery, ARTIFICIAL intelligence, TARGETED drug delivery

Systematic Review of Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy for Patients With Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Authors: Cao, Christopher ^*, Guo, Allen ^*, Chen, Christopher ^*, Chakos, Adam ^*, Bott, Matthew, Yang, Chi-Fu Jeffrey, Zielinski, Rob, Melfi, Franca

Source: In Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Fall 2021 33(3):850-857

Robotic thymectomy for thymoma in patients with myasthenia gravis: neurological and oncological outcomes

Authors: Romano, Gaetano, Zirafa, Carmelina Cristina, Ceccarelli, Ilaria, Guida, Melania, Davini, Federico, Maestri, Michelangelo, Morganti, Riccardo, Ricciardi, Roberta, Hung Key, Teresa, Melfi, Franca

Source: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery. 60(4):890-895

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Disappearance of Anti-Thyroid Autoantibodies following Thymectomy in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis

Authors: Rotondo Dottore, Giovanna, Leo, Marenza, Ricciardi, Roberta, Maestri, Michelangelo, Bucci, Ilaria, Lucchi, Marco, Melfi, Franca, Guida, Melania, De Rosa, Anna, Petrucci, Loredana, Ionni, Ilaria, Lanzolla, Giulia, Nicolì, Francesca, Mantuano, Michele, Ricci, Debora, Latrofa, Francesco, Mariotti, Stefano, Marcocci, Claudio, Marinò, Michele

Source: European thyroid journal. 10(3):237-247

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Thymoma‐associated myasthenia gravis: Clinical features and predictive value of antiacetylcholine receptor antibodies in the risk of recurrence of thymoma

Authors: De Rosa, Anna, Fornili, Marco, Maestri Tassoni, Michelangelo, Guida, Melania, Baglietto, Laura, Petrucci, Loredana, Chella, Antonio, Melfi, Franca, Lucchi, Marco, Ricciardi, Roberta

Source: Thoracic cancer. 12(1):106-113

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Gender representation in cardiothoracic surgical academia: a call to support women across the globe.

Authors: Pompili, Cecilia, Costa, Rita, Cangut, Busra, Opitz, Isabelle, Figueroa, Paula Ugalde, Molena, Daniela, Backhus, Leah, Blackmon, Shanda, Fiedler, Amy, Kluin, Jolanda, Cleuziou, Julie, Melfi, Franca, Fuller, Stephanie, Wood, Douglas E, Antonoff, Mara B

Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery; Dec2024, Vol. 66 Issue 6, p1-6, 6p

Subject Terms: GENDER inequality, SURGEONS, GENDER, ACADEMIA, LABOR supply

DNA methylation analysis of multiple genes in thymic epithelial tumors.

Authors: Nicolì, Vanessa, Giangreco, Marianna, Pardini, Eleonora, Petrini, Iacopo, Bacchin, Diana, Aprile, Vittorio, Melfi, Franca, Lucchi, Marco, Guida, Melania, Ricciardi, Roberta, Maestri, Michelangelo, Lari, Martina, Migliore, Lucia, Stoccoro, Andrea, Coppedè, Fabio

Source: Epigenomics; 2024, Vol. 16 Issue 21/22, p1337-1350, 14p

Abstracts of the Italian Society of Thoracic Endoscopy (SIET) 2024 Annual Congress †.

Authors: Zirafa, Carmelina Cristina, Ibrahim, Mohsen, Corbetta, Lorenzo, Rosso, Lorenzo, Candoli, Piero, Manfredini, Beatrice, Galluccio, Giovanni, Menna, Cecilia, Trisolini, Rocco, Ricciardi, Sara, Romano, Gaetano, Cardillo, Giuseppe, Melfi, Franca, Raveglia, Federico

Source: Journal of Clinical Medicine; Oct2024, Vol. 13 Issue 19, p5954, 113p

Subject Terms: ALLIED health personnel, SPEECH therapists, TECHNOLOGICAL innovations, MEDICAL screening, MEDICAL specialties & specialists, PULMONOLOGISTS

European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons future view on robotic cardiac surgery in Europe.

Authors: Oosterlinck, Wouter, Gianoli, Monica, Palmen, Meindert, Folliguet, Thierry, Bonatti, Johannes, Agnino, Alfonso, Singh, Sandeep, Franke, Ulrich, Modi, Paul, Pereda, Daniel, Kempfert, Jörg, Navarra, Emiliano, Suwalski, Piotr, Vojacek, Jan, Casselman, Filip, Myers, Patrick, Sadaba, J Rafael, Melfi, Franca, Hazekamp, Mark, Bavaria, Joseph

Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery; Oct2024, Vol. 66 Issue 4, p1-5, 5p

Subject Terms: SURGICAL equipment, MINIMALLY invasive procedures, MITRAL valve surgery, INTERNAL thoracic artery, CORONARY artery bypass, SURGICAL blood loss

Radioguided Surgery, a Cost-Effective Strategy for Treating Solitary Pulmonary Nodules: 20-Year Experience of a Single Center

Authors: Ricciardi, Sara, Davini, Federico, Manca, Gianpiero, De Liperi, Annalisa, Romano, Gaetano, Zirafa, Carmelina Cristina, Melfi, Franca

Source: In Clinical Lung Cancer September 2020 21(5):e417-e422

Outcomes of major complications after robotic anatomic pulmonary resection

Authors: Cao, Christopher, Louie, Brian E., Melfi, Franca, Veronesi, Giulia, Razzak, Rene, Romano, Gaetano, Novellis, Pierluigi, Ranganath, Neel K., Park, Bernard J.

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery February 2020 159(2):681-686

Incidence, Management, and Outcomes of Intraoperative Catastrophes During Robotic Pulmonary Resection

Authors: Cao, Christopher, Cerfolio, Robert J., Louie, Brian E., Melfi, Franca, Veronesi, Giulia, Razzak, Rene, Romano, Gaetano, Novellis, Pierluigi, Shah, Savan, Ranganath, Neel, Park, Bernard J.

Source: In The Annals of Thoracic Surgery November 2019 108(5):1498-1504

Implementing successful systematic Patient Reported Outcome and Experience Measures (PROMs and PREMs) in robotic oncological surgery—The role of physicians

Authors: Lungu, Daniel Adrian, Pennucci, Francesca, De Rosis, Sabina, Romano, Gaetano, Melfi, Franca

Source: International journal of health planning and management. 35(3):773-787

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Long-term oncologic results for robotic major lung resection in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients

Authors: Zirafa, Carmelina C., Cavaliere, Ilenia, Ricciardi, Sara, Romano, Gaetano, Davini, Federico, Aprile, Vittorio, Melfi, Franca

Source: In Surgical Oncology March 2019 28:223-227

Lung metastasectomy after colorectal cancer: prognostic impact of resection margin on long term survival, a retrospective cohort study

Authors: Davini, Federico, Ricciardi, Sara, Zirafa, Carmelina C., Romano, Gaetano, Alì, Greta, Fontanini, Gabriella, Melfi, Franca M.A.

Source: International journal of colorectal disease. 35(1):9-18

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Whole transcriptome targeted gene quantification provides new insights on pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinomas

Authors: Alì, Greta, Bruno, Rossella, Poma, Anello, Affinito, Ornella, Monticelli, Antonella, Piaggi, Paolo, Ricciardi, Sara, Lucchi, Marco, Melfi, Franca, Chella, Antonio, Cocozza, Sergio, Fontanini, Gabriella

Source: Scientific reports. 9(1):1-10

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