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Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia Repairs, Transthoracic, Transabdominal, Laparoscopic, or Robotic, Which Method is Best (Ongoing)

This special series on “Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia Repairs, Transthoracic, Transabdominal, Laparoscopic, or Robotic, Which Method is Best” is edited by Dr. Rishindra M. Reddy, from Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, MI, USA.

Non-Intubated Thoracic Surgery. A Global Perspective (Ongoing)

This special series on “Non-Intubated Thoracic Surgery. A Global Perspective” is edited by Dr. Francesco Guerrera, from University of Torino, Italy; Dr. Paolo Albino Ferrari, from A. Businco Cancer Center, Italy; and Prof. Roberto Crisci, from University of L'Aquila, "G. Mazzini" Hospital, Italy.

Robotic Surgery for Lung Cancer

This series is designed to review general and advanced techniques for robotic surgery for lung cancer, to compare outcomes after VATS versus robotic surgery for lung cancer, to discuss learning and teaching robotic surgery and to discuss robotic thoracic surgery from the anesthesia and nursing perspective.

VATS in Lung Metastasectomy (Ongoing)

This focused issue on “VATS in Lung Metastasectomy” is edited by Dr. Marcello Migliore, from Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy; and Dr. Michel Gonzalez, from Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

Implementation of transparent peer review at Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to VATS from March 19, 2020.

Application of the CARE Guideline as reporting standard in The journal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

The journal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery welcomes case reports which are supposed to report new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in the fields of medicine.

For completeness and transparency for published case reports, the journal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery will apply the CARE guidelines (1) as reporting standards for case reports starting from October 14, 2019.

2019 Annual Report of VATS

Greeting from Dr. Lunxu Liu, Dr. Mark W. Onaitis and Editorial Office of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)!

We are glad to present the 2019 Annual Report of VATS here. In 2019, VATS developed smoothly and made some significant progress under the join-efforts of experts worldwide. One high-quality focused issue has been published, it is on “New Technologies for Advanced VATS".

Oncological Clearance of VATS Lobectomy for Clinical N0 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (Ongoing)

This focused issue on “Oncological Clearance of VATS Lobectomy for Clinical N0 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer” is edited by Dr. Mingyon Mun, from Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan.

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Editorial Commentary

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in lung metastasectomy—what is new in lung metastasectomy: an over-view

Jorge Hernández, Juan J. Fibla, Laureano Molins

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Case Report

Metachronous lung cancer resection on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a pneumonectomized and mediastinum irradiated patient

Evangelos Koliakos, Enrica Chiriatti, André Durham, Michel Gonzalez, Thorsten Krueger, Jean-Claude Grange, Dominique Delay, Gregoire Gex, Michel Christodoulou, Jean Yannis Perentes

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Review Article

Minimally-invasive segmentectomy for pulmonary tuberculosis: single center experience

Grigorii Kudriashov, Makhmud Mortada, Armen Avetisyan, Ulyana Smolnikova, Vyacheslav Zhuravlev, Piotr Yablonskii

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Review Article

Robotic surgical techniques for standard segmentectomies

Peter T. White, Mara B. Antonoff, Ravi Rajaram

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Review Article

Uniportal VATS segmentectomy

Kajan Mahendran, Luis Angel Hernandez-Arenas, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Surgical Technique

Awake surgery for lung metastasectomy

Vincenzo Ambrogi, Federica Carlea, Eleonora La Rocca, Tommaso Claudio Mineo

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Original Article

Prognostic factors and recurrence dynamics after multiple-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy for clinical T1-3N0 non-small cell lung cancer

Junghee Lee, Sumin Shin, Tae Ho Kim, Jong Ho Cho, Yong Soo Choi, Jhingook Kim, Jae Ill Zo, Young Mog Shim, Hong Kwan Kim

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Original Article

Optimizing the uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery learning curve in major lung resection

Kajan Mahendran, Alina Maria Budacan, Valeria Abiuso, Diego González-Rivas, Luis Angel Hernandez-Arenas

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Editorial

Overview of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery pulmonary segmentectomy—the movement of minimally invasive surgery

Hitoshi Igai, Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Editorial

The current approaches for minimally invasive esophagectomy

Robert E. Merritt

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 December 2020)

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Case Report

Uniportal video-assisted thoracic total pleural covering for a refractory pneumothorax in a patient with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: a case report

Masaya Mizutani, Teruaki Mizobuchi, Kaoru Nagato, Fumihiro Ishibashi, Isamu Sugano

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Surgical Technique

Uniportal S¹⁰ segmentectomy by transfissural intersegmental tunneling

Amaya Ojanguren, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Céline Forster, Michel Gonzalez

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Review Article

Robotic complex segmentectomies

Han Wu, Yajie Zhang, Hecheng Li

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Review Article

Superiorities of robotic segmentectomy: a review

Kelsey A. Musgrove, Jad M. Abdelsattar, Charlotte R. Spear, Neel Sharma, Alper Toker, Ghulam Abbas

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Review Article

Transitioning from open to robotic lung surgery

Brian E. Louie, Eric Vallières

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Review Article

Oncological clearance of uniportal vats for early stage non-small cell lung cancer

Kevin Lim, Joyce W. Y. Chan, Peter S. Y. Yu, Innes Y. P. Wan, Rainbow W. H. Lau, Calvin S. H. Ng

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Review Article

The ethics of robotic surgical systems is a conversation of informed consent

Sean C. Wightman, Elizabeth A. David, Scott M. Atay, Anthony W. Kim, Peter Angelos

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Review Article

Robot-assisted lung segmentectomies: where are we?

Lorenzo Gherzi, Alessandro Pardolesi

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Original Article

Personalized approach for video-assisted thoracic surgery lung metastasectomy

Céline Forster, Amaya Ojanguren, Jean Yannis Perentes, Matthieu Zellweger, Marcello Migliore, Thorsten Krueger, Etienne Abdelnour-Berchtold, Michel Gonzalez

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Original Article

Video-assisted uniportal pulmonary segmentectomy: description of Safe Accurate Feasible and Easy technique and analysis of short-term outcome

Balasubramanian Venkitaraman, Jianqiao Cai, Xiaoyu Ma, Zhigang Chen, Zhe Shi, Lei Jiang

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2020;

(15 September 2020)

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Original Article

Survival after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for lung metastasectomy

Alfonso Fiorelli, Annalisa Carlucci, Giovanni Natale, Mary Bove, Chiara Freda, Antonio Noro, Vincenzo Ferrara, Giorgia Opromolla, Mario Martone, Roberto Cascone, Gaetana Messina, Anna Izzo, Giovanni Vicidomini, Mario Santini

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Review Article

Outcomes of robotic segmentectomies

Robert Herron, Awori Hayanga, Erkan Kaba, Ghulam Abbas, Alper Toker

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Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic pulmonary segmentectomy: a systematic review

Balasubramanian Venkitaraman, Jianqiao Cai, Xiaoyu Ma, Zhigang Chen, Zhe Shi, Lei Jiang

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Creation of multi-images for assistance in surgery for robotic segmentectomies

Matthieu Sarsam, Samy Lachkar, Jean-Marc Baste

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Is preoperative histological diagnosis in lung metastases necessary?

Dragan Subotic

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Segmentectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery for pulmonary metastases

Benoît Bédat, Marco Demarchi, Frédéric Triponez, Wolfram Karenovics

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Minimally invasive transhiatal esophagectomy

Tyler R. Grenda, Jules Lin, Andrew C. Chang, Rishindra M. Reddy

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What have we learned in the process of setting up and running the PulMiCC (Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer) randomised controlled trial?

Francesca Fiorentino, Misel Milošević, Tom Treasure

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Advantages and disadvantages of robotic and uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Hiromitsu Nagano, Takashi Suda

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Oncological clearance of minimally invasive lobectomy for clinical N0 non-small cell lung cancer: the role of robotic surgery

Piergiorgio Muriana, Giulia Veronesi

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Oncologic outcomes in minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma

Nicolas A. Devaud, Jonathan C. Yeung, Gail E. Darling

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Segment-specific lymph node dissection and evaluation during anatomical pulmonary segmentectomy

Ghulam Abbas, Beebarg Raza, Kamil Abbas, Jason Lamb, Alper Toker

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Case Report

Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right thoracic duct ligation for chyle leak following right supraclavicular lymph node biopsy: a case report

Pei Fern Koh, Narasimman Sathiamurthy, Nguk Chai Diong, Benedict Dharmaraj

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Editorial

A neighbor to VATS: robotic thoracic surgery

Alper Toker

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Surgical Technique

Ivor Lewis robotic assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy technique

Brian Yoo, James D. Luketich, Inderpal S. Sarkaria

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The tips of uniportal thoracoscopic lateral and posterior basal (S⁹⁺¹⁰) segmentectomy

Hitoshi Igai, Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara

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Thoracic outlet syndrome: first rib resection by video-thoracoscopy using two ports

Ignacio Sastre, Manuel España, Roberto Ceballos, Mario Eduardo Francisco Bustos

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Editorial

Understanding the impact of neoadjuvant chemoradiation on health-related quality of life in esophageal cancer

Tara R. Semenkovich, Bryan F. Meyers

Surgical Technique

Robotic assisted VATS lobectomy for loco-regionally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Simon R. Turner, M. Jawad Latif, Bernard J. Park

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Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal reporting the cutting-edge findings and application of video-assisted thoracic surgery, including but not limited to biopsy, esophagus surgery (esophagectomy), hiatal hernia repair, lung surgery, procedures to remove excess fluid or air from the area around the lungs, surgery to relieve excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis), surgery to relieve gastroesophageal reflux disease, thymus gland removal surgery (thymectomy).