Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery: a call for better evidence, not just more evidence

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit (UCTMI), Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China diego.gonzalez.rivas@sergas.es.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Editorial

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 Sep.

. 2016 Sep;50(3):416-7.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezw187. Epub 2016 May 30.

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit (UCTMI), Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China diego.gonzalez.rivas@sergas.es.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

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Keywords: Lobectomy; Minimally invasive surgery; Single-port VATS; Uniportal.

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