Background: Chest drains are routinely used after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung resections to evacuate fluid and air from the pleural space. We compared the impact of coaxial ...

November 10, 2010 (Vancouver, British Columbia) — The use of video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy (VATS) reduces postoperative pulmonary and cardiac complications, compared with unassisted ...

Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation in Operable Stage IIIA Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy: Results From a German Multicenter Randomized Trial The Cancer and ...

Robotic-Assisted Lobectomy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Provides Better Patient-Reported Quality of Life Compared to Video-Assisted Lobectomy (Vienna—August 9, 2022 10:10 a.m. CEST) –Robot-assisted ...

Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall survival rate, according to a meta-analysis presented at the ...

Patients may better tolerate video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), but there are concerns about the potential for missing lymph node metastases. Over a recent 4-year study period, VATS lobectomy was ...

Five patients were treated surgically using the VATS technique of anatomical lung resection at the 2nd Department of Surgery, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, University Hospital of L. Pasteur, Košice ...

(Barcelona, Spain September 8, 2025, 10:45 a.m. CEST / UTC +2) – Patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) compared to open lobectomy had a significantly improved overall ...