@article{JTD24756,
author = {Marcin Zieliński and Pawel Gwozdz and Michal Wilkojc and Sylweriusz Kosinski and Edward Fryzlewicz and Tomasz Nabialek and Juliusz Pankowski and Robert Kwiatkowski},
title = {Non-intercostal access for video-assisted thoracic surgery— analysis of technical advantages and disadvantages},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {10},
number = {Suppl 32},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy has become an accepted method for the treatment of early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The standard VATS approach is an intercostal one which is often followed by postoperative pain due to injury of the intercostal nerve. The non-intercostal techniques of VATS include the subxiphoid, transcervical, transdiaphragmatic and transoral procedures.
Methods: The technical difficulty of operative management of the anatomical structures during VATS anatomical resection are compared for the intercostal, subxiphoid and transcervical approaches.
Results: Some operative steps have different range of difficulty, which are analyzed in detail.
Conclusions: The clearest advantages of the non-intercostal approaches include less postoperative pain and superradial bilateral mediastinal lymphadenectomy in case of the transcervical approach. However, the non-intercostal approaches are more technically demanding procedures, which therapeutic role has to be clarified in the future.},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/24756}
}