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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:1984-1985
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Division of Thoracic Surgery, Yale University, FMB 128, 330 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520-8062

(Email: frank.detterbeck@yale.edu).

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Mineo and colleagues [1] deserve credit for introducing and developing a hybrid approach that overcomes one of the primary limitations of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), namely the inability to directly palpate the lung. The current article nicely describes their now extensive experience over 11 years with the transxiphoid approach and provides objective data of their results [1]. As their experience shows, it is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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