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John Barba-Pacheco1, Gutenberg Navarro1, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas2,3, Fernando Polit1, Pamela Wong1, Fabrizio Nieto1, Manuel Romero1, Jaime Carrera1, Jonathan Villacis1, Martha J Zambrano1, Karina Bravo1, Renee Velastegui1, Freddy Rodríguez1, Manuel Reyes4, Silvia Cullacay5, Ramiex Cercado5, Sara Salvatierra6.
Abstract
Currently video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and the evolution Uniportal VATS have a worldwide acceptance and Ecuador is not exception when we decided invited to Dr. Diego Gonzalez-Rivas pioneer surgeon in the world of single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic procedures, with the aim to provide a faster recovery of the patients compared to those who received a conventional thoracotomy. We thanks the opportunity to present a report to the first Masterclass in Uniportal VATS with live surgery, performed on February 23rd to 24th of 2017 at the Luis Vernaza Hospital in Guayaquil-Ecuador. In addition to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of the uniportal VATS technique we presented a video of uniportal VATS left lower lobectomy performed by Dr. Diego Gonzalez-Rivas during the first uniportal masterclass in Guayaquil, Ecuador.Entities:
Keywords: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS); minimally invasive thoracic surgery; uniportal VATS left lower lobectomy; uniportal VATS technique
Year: 2017 PMID： 29078640 PMCID： PMC5637872 DOI： 10.21037/jovs.2017.05.11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Vis Surg ISSN： 2221-2965