Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a minimally invasive technique. A VATS lobectomy, or thoracoscopic lobectomy, procedure is performed ...

Ask your doctor about any other steps you can take ... But with VATS or robotic surgery, you’ll typically go home sooner. Pain after lobectomy After surgery, you’ll get pain medication.

Over a recent 4-year study period, VATS lobectomy was associated with better survival than (open) thoracotomy lobectomy. To better compare the 2 approaches, patient populations need to be as ...

The world’s first VATS lobectomy — surgery to remove one of the lobes of the lungs — using a single incision was reported in 2011. At the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, we performed the first ...