Certification for minimally invasive thoracic surgery: is your surgeon ready?

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Editorial

Tyler S Wahl et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;11(Suppl 9):S1145-S1146.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.04.35.

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

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

Society for Translational Medicine expert consensus on training and certification standards for surgeons and assistants in minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer.
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