Is a single port enough for the learned thoracic surgeons?

[摘要] As reported in the international multidisciplinary team discussion titled “Anatomical segmentectomy under uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for early staged non-small cell lung cancer: a case report” by Wang et al. (1), anatomical segmentectomy under uniportal VATS can be a feasible and safe minimally invasive procedure. The authors also concluded that uniportal segmentectomy has equivalent oncological outcomes to lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer but needs to be performed at an experienced medical center. In this editorial, we discuss the technical aspects of uniportal segmentectomy that make this minimally invasive approach feasible and safe with potentially equivalent oncological outcomes to lobectomy in early-stage lung cancer.

[学科分类] 呼吸医学

[关键词] Uniportal segmentectomy;localization;nonpalpable tumor;margin;radiofrequency identification marking