TY - JOUR AU - Ujiie, Hideki AU - Gregor, Alexander AU - Yasufuku, Kazuhiro PY - 2019 TI - Hybrid operating room: the leading edge of thoracic surgery JF - Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery; Vol 4 (March 2019): Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - Chen et al . report a retrospective comparison of preoperative localization outcomes in the hybrid OR vs . CT room for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) surgery (1). The authors employed a CT-guided patent blue vital (PBV) dye localization strategy in this study, supported by previous work demonstrating safety and high efficacy (2,3). However, this previous work employed a ‘traditional’ approach of using an interventional CT room. UR - https://vats.amegroups.org/article/view/4878