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SUBMITTER: Jeon HW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4022387 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jeon Hyun Woo HW Kim Young-Du YD Moon Young Kyu YK Wang Young Pil YP
Journal of cardiothoracic surgery 20140404
Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) provides less postoperative pain, preservation of the immune response and shorter recovery period, compared with thoracotomy. However, many patients complain of postoperative pain and paresthesia because VATS requires 3 or 4 incisions including a utility incision of 3-5 cm. To overcome this problem, single incision thoracoscopic surgery has emerged; this technique has been adopted for lung cancer surgery since 2010. Complete mediastinal lymph node dissectio ...[more]