Video-assisted thoracic surgery through a single skin incision.
Open Access
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 133 (2) , 145-147
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.133.2.145
Abstract
VIDEO-ASSISTED thoracic surgery (VATS) has gained popularity because it is minimally invasive. The standard technique for VATS uses more than 3 separate skin incisions.1-3 Many minimalistic surgical interventions, including laser ablation and looping of blebs, have been designed for the treatment of patients with pneumothoraces. We report a variation of the VATS technique that uses only a single skin incision.Keywords
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