Is a complicated VATS lung resection better than no VATS at all?-converting our stance on intraoperative conversions

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Editorial

Melanie Subramanian et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;11(Suppl 9):S1366-S1368.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.03.87.

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.

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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have 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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