ArticleJournal of visualized surgery2018
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery, and the uni-surgeon: new words for the contemporary world.
Article in Journal of visualized surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT03537430 (Totally no Tube), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Totally no Tube (TNT) Uniportal Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) VS Traditional Uniportal VATS for Mediastinal Tumor: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Intermediate oncologic outcomes after uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy for early-stage thymoma.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- Uniportal, single incision VATS for the skeptics.Journal of visualized surgery · 2018Article
- Erratum to uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery, and the uni-surgeon: new words for the contemporary world.Journal of visualized surgeryArticle
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (U-VATS) is gaining popularity, and is currently performed by a team formed by one surgeon, one camera holder and one nurse. As expected, the new word "uni-surgeon" is becoming more and more common. In this article, using the example of thoracic surgery, I try briefly to analyze the pro and cons of the uniportal-single incision VATS and uni-surgeon in the modern world, and how uniportal surgery may bring a novel dimension to the future of surgery.
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