Incision of thoracoscopic surgery: can we and should we make it smaller?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Division of Thoracic surgery, Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Chia-Chuan Liu et al. J Vis Surg. 2016.

. 2016 Mar 11:2:40.

doi: 10.21037/jovs.2016.03.05. eCollection 2016.

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Division of Thoracic surgery, Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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