Robotic and video-assisted thoracic surgery lung segmentectomy for malignant and benign lesions.

Journal: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

Published Date: Dec 4, 2014

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The experience with robotic techniques (RATS) and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in pulmonary segmentectomy is still limited. We evaluated our prospectively recorded database to compare two different minimally invasive techniques.

Authors

Adalet Demir

Thoracic Surgery Department, Istanbul University, Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey dradalet@hotmail.com.
Kemal Ayalp

Thoracic Surgery Department, Group Florence Nightingale Istanbul Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Berker Ozkan

Thoracic Surgery Department, Istanbul University, Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
Erkan Kaba

Thoracic Surgery Department, Group Florence Nightingale Istanbul Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Alper Toker

Thoracic Surgery Department, Istanbul University, Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey Thoracic Surgery Department, Group Florence Nightingale Istanbul Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Keywords

Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Diagnosis, Differential Female Humans Lung Diseases Lung Neoplasms Male Middle Aged Pneumonectomy Retrospective Studies Robotics Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted Young Adult

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Robotic and video-assisted thoracic surgery lung segmentectomy for malignant and benign lesions.

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