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One, two, three or four ports… does it matter? Priorities in lung cancer surgery

   
@article{JTD11221,
	author = {Herbert Decaluwé},
	title = {One, two, three or four ports… does it matter? Priorities in lung cancer surgery},
	journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
	volume = {8},
	number = {12},
	year = {2016},
	keywords = {},
	abstract = {Lung cancer surgeons can choose from an arsenal of techniques when offering minimal invasive surgery to their patients. These can be classified by the primary vantage point, the use of a robot, the use of a utility-incision (vs. total thoracoscopic), the location of the extraction point, the sequence of transection (hilum-first vs. fissure-first), the size of the ports or the number of ports. Combinations are possible and this results in a wealth of techniques. Obviously, surgeons with—sometimes without—experience like their own technique and tend to defend them. Some techniques are positioned as ‘ultra-minimal invasive’ such as uniportal surgery, micro-lobectomy (5 mm instruments and subxyphoidal extraction) or complete subxyphoidal resections. Subjectively, the clinical importance might make sense. But, hard objective data are missing to date.},
	issn = {2077-6624},	url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/11221}
}