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Ann Thorac Surg 2011;91:2021. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.01.069
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Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCSEd

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

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

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Dr Rocco discloses that he has a financial relationship with Covidien.

 

Assouad and colleagues [1] should be commended for rightfully raising the point of how to expand the practice of uniportal videoscopic assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). However, although the indications for single-port VATS to manage pleural disease (ie, single incision VATS to obtain diagnosis and divide loculations) have been known since the inception of thoracoscopic surgery, operative uniportal VATS (ie, single incision VATS pulmonary resection) often requires interchangeability of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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