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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, Innsbruck, 6020 Austria

(Email: johannes.bodner@i-med.ac.at).

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Gharagozloo and colleagues [1] report a single institutional experience of a combined robotic (RATS) and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical (VATS) approach for pulmonary lobectomies in 100 consecutive patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. This large series on RATS lobectomies demonstrates the feasibility and safety of a hybrid technique using the robot for hilar and vascular dissection.

The concept of hybrid procedures, combining the specific advantages of the conventional and robotic minimally invasive approaches, is forward-looking and may represent the future for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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