@article{JTD3029,
author = {Marco Anile and Daniele Diso and Sara Mantovani and Miriam Patella and Emanule Russo and Carolina Carillo and Ylenia Pecoraro and Ilaria Onorati and Tiziano De Giacomo and Erino A. Rendina and Federico Venuta},
title = {Uniportal video assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: going directly from open surgery to a single port approach},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {6},
number = {Suppl 6},
year = {2014},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS) has gaining a special place in the thoracic surgery scenario; nowadays even major pulmonary resections can be performed through this approach. We hereby review our initial experience with uniportal VAT lobectomy, performed passing directly from the open approach to a single port approach. We attempted 26 lobectomies through VATS with a single incision of about 5 cm and 22 of them were completed: eight left lower lobectomies, six right upper lobectomies, five left upper lobectomies and three right lower lobectomies. At pathological staging all but four patients were stage I; three patients were T2N1M0 and one had a micrometastasis in a lymph node of station 7 (T1N2M0— Stage IIIA) and they all underwent adjuvant chemotherapy. No perioperative mortality was observed. One patient had a myocardial infarction in the first postoperative day requiring placement of four stents and another one required thoracentesis after drainage removal. The mean time for drainage removal was 3 days and the length of hospitalization was 4.2±1.1. Pain as measured by the visual analogical scale (VAS) scale was graded as 4.9, 2.6 and 0.5 during the first postoperative day, at discharge and after 1 month respectively.},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/3029}
}