BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the preferences for treatment of lobectomy in Chinese lung cancer patients and differences in the psychological and social factors that influence treatment decision-making. METHODS One hundred and forty patients with stage I lung cancer were recruited from Hebei Cangzhou Central Hospital. Before surgery, the patients completed a questionnaire ...

BACKGROUND Although many video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomies have been performed over the 12 years since the first VATS lobectomy, controversies about the procedure remain regarding the safety and associated morbidity and mortality of that procedure. This series is reviewed to assess these issues. METHODS Between 1992 and 2004, we performed 1,100 VATS lobectomies in 595 women (...

: In the last few decades, reduced-port video-assisted thoracic surgery (RP-VATS) has been developed to minimize surgical invasiveness. Nevertheless, VATS in children can occasionally be difficult because lesion occupies a small cavity, limiting working space. This study aimed assess feasibility of RP-VATS for resection mediastinal lesions association with tumor-to-thoracic height ratio (TTH ra...

Background: Robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) has become widely used for mediastinal procedures since 2018 when it was included in insurance coverage Japan. Few studies have compared the surgical outcomes of RATS with more established video-assisted (VATS) approach to surgery. We aimed compare perioperative VATS and examine advantages a single institutional cohort.

A best evidence topic was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed is the learning curve for video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy affected by prior experience in open lobectomy? Two hundred and two studies were identified of which seven presented the best evidence on the topic. The authors, date, journal, country of publication, study type, participating surge...

BACKGROUND Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has emerged as a less invasive alternative to the conventional multiportal approach in the treatment of lung cancer. The benefits of this uniportal technique have not yet been characterized in patients undergoing VATS lobectomy. This meta-analysis aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of uniportal and multiportal VATS lobectomy f...

Twenty years of experience in Video-assisted thoracoscopic lung surgery (VATS), have led to the development of innovative techniques to rival open thoracotomy for major lung resections (1,2). Acceptability of the technique relates to benefits including; reduced length of hospital stay, decreased blood loss, decreased pain, improved cosmesis, earlier return to normal activities and improved tole...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been widely used, but surgical resections of superior sulcus tumours remain challenging because of their anatomical location. For such cases, less-invasive procedures, such as the anterior transcervical-thoracic and transmanubrial approaches, have been widely performed because of their excellent visualization of the subclavian vessels. Recently, a...

We have produced monoclonal antibodies against six variant surface glycoproteins from early variant antigen types (VATs) of the IsTaR 1 serodeme of Trypanosoma brucei brucei. We have used these in fixed cell immunofluorescence assays to follow the VAT composition of populations of each early VAT when passaged through irradiated mice. The IsTat 1.A and 1.7a populations were stable for more than ...