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Ann Thorac Surg 2011;91:2020-2021. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.11.050
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Single Incision Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Using a Laparoscopic Port

Jalal Assouad, MD, PhD, Stéphane Vignes, MD, Joseph Nakad, MD, Dominique Grunenwald, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hôpital Tenon, 4 rue de Chine, Paris 75020, France

(Email: jalal.assouad@tnn.aphp.fr).

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the report by Rocco and colleagues [1] describing ambulatory, single incision, video-assisted thoracic surgical (VATS) resection of peripheral pulmonary nodules. The use of multiple ports in most VATS procedures remains a major cause of early pain and persistent parietal disorders [2]. For the last decade, only a few publications describing the use of single incision VATS have been reported, and in these studies authors performed interventions either through a single, classical thoracic port or directly through an incision without any port [1, 3, 4]. The persistence of multi-port VATS is probably due primarily to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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