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 ...
Compared with multi-port VATS, a single-port procedure further reduces trauma and post-surgery pain for patients, and the surgeon still gets a traditional open view via video. By April 2023 ...
Table 1. Postoperative Infections in 346 Patients Undergoing VATS Procedures Table 2. Preoperative Risk Factors of the 17 Patients Who Developed Surgical Infections and of the 329 Patients ...
This study of 346 consecutive patients confirms that VATS surgery can be performed with ... and after VATS pleura/mediastinal mass biopsy procedures (5.0% and 4.8%, respectively).
The mortality (death) and morbidity (illness) rates in thoracoscopic procedures are very low when compared to major surgery, the surgeon stresses, adding that it prevents many complications of open ...