VATS: The Age of Maturity--Edited by Luca Bertolaccini, Piergiorgio Soll

Posted On 2016-10-31 02:29:36

Words from Guest Editors:

“The development of major VATS surgery has almost two decades. At present, many advanced thoracic surgical procedures can be performed by VATS, with smaller wounds, less pain, shorter hospital stay, and with as good outcomes compared with conventional surgery. This focused issue aims to review current knowledge and discuss controversies in the development of VATS. And this will be the first focused issue to talk about this topic in such a targeted journal.”

Editorial 
VATS: the age of maturity
Luca Bertolaccini, Alessandro Pardolesi, Piergiorgio Solli


Review Article  
VATS, robotic lobectomy and microlobectomy—the future is just ahead?
Muhammad I. Mohamed Mydin, Mohamed M. El-Saegh, Marco Nardini, Joel Dunning

Cost analysis of VATS approaches
Alessandro Brunelli

Three-dimensional video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in major lung resection
Edward J. Caruana

Non intubated VATS: where do we stand?
Filippo Longo, Raffaele Rocco, Pier lippo Crucitti, Diego Gonzales-Rivas, Gaetano Rocco

Role and utility of the national registers of VATS major procedures
Duilio Divisi, Gino Zaccagna, Francesca Gabriele, Roberto Crisci

Video-assisted thoracic surgery for esophagectomy: evolution and prosperity
Wei Guo, Jie Xiang, Su Yang, Hecheng Li


Original Article 
Minimally invasive bronchoplastic resections
Florian Augustin, Herbert Maier, Thomas Schmid


Surgical Technique 
Robotic assisted VATS lobectomy for loco-regionally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Simon R. Turner, M. Jawad Latif, Bernard J. Park

Uniportal video-thoracoscopic mediastinal lymphadenectomy
Benedetta Bedetti, Luca Bertolaccini, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Marco Scarci

Subxiphoid VATS approach for the mediastinum
Marcin Zieliński, Mariusz Rybak, Katarzyna Solarczyk-Bombik, Michal Wilkojc, Wojciech Czajkowski, Sylweriusz Kosinski, Edward Fryzlewicz, Tomasz Nabialek, Juliusz Pankowski


More publication for this special issue is coming…

Disclosure:
The series “VATS: The Age of Maturity” was commissioned by the editorial office, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery without any sponsorship or funding. Luca Bertolaccini and Piergiorgio Solli served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the series.