[41 cases of video-assisted thoracoscopy].

Video-assisted of thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is the minimally invasive surgery. It has characteristic of mini-incision, less pain, less bleeding, less transfusing, less affecting cardio pulmonary function. So it is one of the development directions of thoracic surgery. The authors had finished 41 cases VATS. Operative indication was expatiated. The requirement of anesthesia is lower. The patients whose pulmonary function were too severe destructive to walk could be treated by VATS. The authors discussed some questions of VATS.