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Hand-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2003
Hand-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is a novel minimally invasive approach for performing techniques conventionally performed by posterolateral thoracotomy. Hand-assisted thoracoscopic surgery overcomes one of the major drawbacks of minimally invasive thoracic surgery in allowing full manual palpation of the lungs through a subcostal incision under ...
Gavin M, Wright, C Peter, Clarke, Joseph M, Paiva   +2 more
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Quality of life improves after thoracoscopic surgical ablation of advanced atrial fibrillation: Results of the Atrial Fibrillation Ablation and Autonomic Modulation via Thoracoscopic Surgery (AFACT) study

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2018
We evaluated health-related quality of life at 12 months after thoracoscopic surgical ablation in patients enrolled in the Atrial Fibrillation Ablation and Autonomic Modulation via Thoracoscopic Surgery study.
Wouter R Berger, Nicoline W E Van Den Berg, Jolien Neefs   +2 more
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The history of thoracoscopic surgery

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1993
The necessity for thoracoscopy became apparent with the adhesions that limited the success of Forlanini's introduction in 1882 of artificial pneumothorax in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. The first thoracoscopy, using a modified cystoscope, was performed by H. C.
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[Thoracoscope for thoracoscopic surgery].

Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery, 2015
Thoracoscope is very important in thoracoscopic surgery (TS). There are many types of telescope and monitor. Also the placement of access port and location of the monitor image often differ between each institutions. Thoracic surgeons need to know these features to perform good TS. In our department, 2,375 patients (98% of all operation) were underwent
Sakashi, Fujimori, Tadasu, Kohno
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Anaesthesia for thoracoscopic surgery

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2002
The surgical requirement for thoracoscopy is a good view of the contents of the thorax. This is achieved by capitalizing on natural consequences and the skills of anaesthesiologists to produce a pneumothorax and collapse the ipsilateral lung--a process that is commonly enhanced by insufflating carbon dioxide.
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An update on anesthesia for thoracoscopic surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2010
The surgical management of patients partly determines the anesthetic management. A shift has taken place in thoracic surgery, with a large portion of procedures now being performed through a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) approach. This review is intended to provide the anesthesiologist with an update on the management of thoracic surgical
Gregory W, Fischer, Edmond, Cohen
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Thoracoscopic Surgery for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

World Journal of Surgery, 1999
Abstract.Tuberculosis historically was a major impetus for the development of thoracic surgery, and it remains a serious health problem of global proportion. Thoracoscopy was first introduced at the turn of this century for closed chest adhesiolysis as an adjunct to collapse therapy for treatment of tuberculosis.
A P, Yim, M B, Izzat, T W, Lee
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Preliminary Experience With Thoracoscopic Surgery

Journal of Laparoendoscopic Surgery, 1992
Thoracoscopic surgery was accomplished in 12 patients utilizing thoracoscopic instruments and a stapler. Five patients were treated for recurrent, spontaneous pneumothoraces, for which blebectomies were done; three patients for pulmonary nodules, for which wedge resections were done; one patient for cryptogenic pleural effusion; one patient for ...
F K, Toy, R T, Smoot
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Thoracoscopic Surgery for Spontaneous Pneumothorax

World Journal of Surgery, 1999
Abstract.Spontaneous pneumothorax in apparently healthy individuals is a relatively common occurrence. The management of patients with spontaneous pneumothorax remains controversial. With the advances in thoracoscopic techniques and instrumentation, video‐assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is now accepted by many as the procedure of choice for surgical ...
H P, Liu, A P, Yim, M B, Izzat, P J, Lin, C H, Chang   +4 more
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Thoracoscopic surgery in the elderly population

Surgical Endoscopy, 1996
We review our experience in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) on patients over 75 years of age from a single institution.From September 1992 to November 1995, 22 patients (13 males and 9 females with mean age of 78.1 years) underwent the following procedures: pleural biopsies with or without drainage and decortication (5), drainage of empyema
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