Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Patients may better tolerate video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), but there are concerns about the potential for ...

video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), and thoracotomy. Main Outcome Measures: Length of stay (LOS), additional drainage procedures, readmission within 14 days of discharge, and hospital costs.

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 ...

This has established single-port VATS as a safe approach for complex thoracic surgeries. As we continue to perfect the method at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, our cure rate for locally advanced ...

These thoracoscopic operations entail two or three small one-cm incisions on the side of the chest rather than opening up the chest cavity (thoracotomy) or three-cm incisions for Video Assisted ...