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Training in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2017Interest in uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is rapidly growing worldwide because it represents the surgical approach to the lung with the least possible trauma. Specific training in this surgical approach is crucial due to its technical implications, to perform it safely while upholding the required therapeutic radicality.
Alberto Sandri +2 more
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Are There Contraindications for Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery?
Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2017Allowing oneself to indulge in illusory superiority when it comes to uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) can harm patients and the specialty. It is important for every VATS surgeon to remain vigilant. One must be clear about the absolute and relative contraindications for VATS: those conditions that should deter from even attempting a ...
Alan D L Sihoe
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The learning curve on uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery: An analysis of proficiency
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2020Minimally invasive techniques for lung cancer surgery have revolutionized thoracic surgery, and single-port approaches are becoming increasingly used. We analyzed our experience with uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for lobectomy to identify the number of procedures necessary to achieve proficiency according to clinical outcomes.We ...
Arthur Vieira
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European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 2019 OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to report the results of the first consensus paper among international experts in uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (UniVATS) lobectomy obtained through a Delphi process, the objective of which was to define and ...
Luca Bertolaccini +2 more
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Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Esophagectomy
Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2017Several minimally invasive approaches for esophagectomy have been described, including robot-assisted esophagectomy and hybrid techniques, total transhiatal laparoscopic approach, esophagectomy using right thoracoscopy, combined laparoscopic and right thoracoscopic esophagectomy, and esophageal resection through mediastinoscopy.
Sekhniaidze, Dmitrii, Kononets, Pavel
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Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery: the lesser invasive thoracic surgery
Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 2014Objectives We evaluated whether single-port video-assisted thoracic surgery is feasible without compromising outcomes, and whether the technique could be reproduced by a trainee. Methods In a 6-month period, 37 operations were ...
Apostolos, Roubelakis +4 more
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The Geometric and Ergonomic Appeal of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2017The geometric characteristics of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) are known: one small incision without further dissection of the intercostal space with the simultaneous introduction of instruments to the thoracoscope through an ideal circular truncated cone, as wide as a surgeon's fingerbreadth.
Bertolaccini L. +3 more
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Nonintubated Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Chest Infections
Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2020Chest infection is a health care problem in many regions of the world, and pleural empyema is the most common type of surgical chest infection. In the past decennium, the introduction of nonintubated surgery and uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery changed considerably surgical treatment of pleural empyema.
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Awake Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Complications After Pneumonectomy
Future Oncology, 2016Since 1998, we started a clinical program for awake video-assisted thoracic surgery in our unit using four-step local anesthesia and sedation. Throughout the years, we experienced several difficult cases, three of them had complications postpneumonectomy. The aim of this paper is to report these three cases.
MIGLIORE, Marcello +6 more
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