Analyzing intraoperative conversion of thoracoscopic lobectomy: acceptable outcome or failure?

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Sandra L Starnes. J Thorac Dis. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;11(3):643-645.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.02.41.

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Intraoperative conversion: it happens, we should smartly deal with it.
Fourdrain A, Leviel F, Lafitte S, Berna P. Fourdrain A, et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 Aug;11(8):E123-E124. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.08.25. J Thorac Dis. 2019. PMID: 31559080 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Intraoperative conversion during video-assisted thoracoscopy does not constitute a treatment failure†.
Fourdrain A, De Dominicis F, Iquille J, Lafitte S, Merlusca G, Witte-Pfister A, Meynier J, Bagan P, Berna P. Fourdrain A, et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 Apr 1;55(4):660-665. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy343. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019. PMID: 30325413

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