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Abstract
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is finding an ever-increasing role in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of thoracic disorders that previously required sternotomy or open thoracotomy. The potential advantages of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery include less postoperative pain, fewer operative complications, shortened hospital stay and reduced costs. The following review examines the surgical and anesthetic considerations of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, with an emphasis on recently published articles.Entities:
Year: 2000 PMID: 17016278 DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200002000-00007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Anaesthesiol ISSN: 0952-7907 Impact factor: 2.706