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Video-assisted thoracic surgery complications.
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques, 2014 Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is a miniinvasive technique commonly applied worldwide. Indications for VATS are very broad and include the diagnosis of mediastinal, lung and pleural diseases, as well as large resection procedures such as pneumonectomy. The most frequent complication is prolonged postoperative air leak.
Łochowski, Mariusz P., Kozak, Józef
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Thoracic Cancer, 2022 Background Surgical resection of the thymus is indicated in the presence of primary thymic diseases such as thymoma. Video‐assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and robot‐assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) offer a minimally invasive approach to thymectomy.
Cheng Shen +3 more
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Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery
Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2016 Even though the development of thoracoscopic procedures has a history of over a hundred years, it is only in the last two decades that interest in minimally invasive thoracic surgery has been renewed by two key technological improvements. These are the development of endoscopic cameras offering a panoramic view and the availability of new endoscopic ...
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Low-cost multiport and uniport video-assisted thoracic surgery bullectomy
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2022 Introduction Egypt, like many other third world countries, faces a problem of rising health care cost, adding that a large number of patients are not covered by medical insurance so they have to fully pay for their health care, pneumothorax due to ...
Amr A Saleh +3 more
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Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Journal of Chest Surgery, 2021 Lobectomy is the standard treatment for early non-small cell lung cancer. Various surgical techniques for lobectomy have been developed, and minimally invasive thoracic surgery, such as video-assisted thoracic surgery or robot-assisted thoracic surgery ...
Jun Hee Lee, Jeong In Hong, Hyun Koo Kim
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Thoracic endoscopic surgery: advantages and limitations
Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2023 Background Thoracoscopic spine surgery is a form of minimally invasive spine surgery primarily used to treat thoracic spinal disk herniation and stenosis via endoscopic discectomy and decompression techniques, respectively.
Mohamed Ragab Nagy
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Early and late outcomes of video thoracoscopic versus open approach for bronchiectasis lung resections [PDF]
Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de CirurgiõesObjectives: To evaluate the early and late results of surgical treatment of patients with bronchiectasis, comparing the Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) vs. the open thoracotomy (OT).
ANTERO GOMES NETO +6 more
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Minimally invasive thoracic surgery: robot-assisted versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques, 2023 Minimally invasive techniques have been widely applied in general thoracic surgery. Compared with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), due to its theoretic superiority, robotic surgery is challenging the traditional position of VATS.
Liping Zeng, Tianyu He, Jian Hu
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Frontiers in SurgeryMinimally invasive thoracic surgery, including video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, has been proven to have an advantage over open thoracotomy with less pain, fewer postoperative complications, faster discharge ...
Ziyao Fang +10 more
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The Cardiothoracic SurgeonBackground Lung cancer continues to be the primary cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with surgical resection recognised as the gold standard for non-small cell lung cancer. Recent innovations in thoracic surgery, including video-assisted thoracic
Michael Joseph Otorkpa +4 more
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