Preface to Uniportal VATS Journey

“Innovation, tenacity and a master technician are words I would use to describe my friend Diego Gonzalez-Rivas. We met for the first time in Berlin at the ISMICS meeting in 2010. At that time a few pioneers such as Gaetano Rocco had reported initial forays into the world of uniportal VATS, but no-one was using this approach as a standard for lobectomy. The standard approach for VATS lobectomy then was a multiport approach, however the adoption of VATS lobectomy was also still relatively small.