A new meta-analysis provided high-quality evidence demonstrating that video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) significantly reduces the risk for death by 21% compared with open lobectomy in ...

A retrospective single-center study found that inflammation, operative blood loss, surgical approach and preoperative ...

Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall survival rate, according to a meta-analysis presented at the ...

Background: Postoperative infections, as related to risk factors, in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) procedures have been studied infrequently. Conclusions: This ...

Thoracic surgeon Diego González Rivas, based in A Coruña, Spain, developed the Uniportal VATS technique, a minimally invasive ...

Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall survival rate, according to a meta-analysis presented at the ...

Researchers took both the learning curve of the new process and the COVID-19 pandemic into consideration. A new cost analysis found some evidence that the initial increased costs associated with robot ...

Surgical lung biopsies that are performed via video-assisted thoracic surgery are safe for obtaining histopathologic tissue for select patients. Surgical lung biopsies (SLBs) that are performed via ...

Lung resection is gaining momentum among thoracic surgeons because it allows the operating surgeon the convenience of performing a dissection that in many ways is similar to open surgery, yet that has ...