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Correspondence

The One and Only

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Via Semmola 81, Naples, 80131 Italy

(Email: gaetano.rocco@btopenworld.com).

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To the Editor:

I read with interest the contribution by Drs Iwazaki and Inoue [1] regarding their video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) "one-port method" to perform lobectomy and mediastinal nodal dissection for early stage lung cancer [1]. I would like to congratulate the authors for having accomplished a procedure that as a rule requires multiple ports of variable sizes and a utility thoracotomy, or both. Likewise, I concur with them on the versatility of a single-port approach for "a wide variety of intrathoracic diseases" [1] for the same reasons listed in their current article and in a . . . [Full Text of this Article]