Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to introduce a special section in the VATS Journal. This section entitled “Troubleshooting VATS: Tips and Tricks” hopes to highlight a common method of surgical teaching and learning.
In meetings, it is common for surgeons to discuss a difficult situation that they encountered only to find that other colleagues have found themselves in the same situation and have developed workarounds to solve the problem. These issues may be as seemingly insignificant as appropriate port placement for a tumor in an unusual location to dealing with significant bleeding from the pulmonary artery…
