title: [Video-assisted thoracic surgery--1].
abstract: Due to the latest advances in video technology and endoscopic instruments, thoracoscopy has changed from being mainly diagnostic to include many threapeutic procedures in the thorax. The article reviews equipment and techniques as well as attempts to reflect current attitudes to indications for their use.
authors.affiliation: Odense Universitetshospital, thorax-karkirurgisk afdeling T.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ladegaard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kruse-Andersen
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Andersen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D020708:Thoracoscopes; D014741:Video Recording
vernacular_title: Videoassisteret thoraxkirurgi--1.