title: A developmental history of thoracoscopic surgery.
abstract: Thoracoscopic surgery, an old yet new discipline, has a history of 88 years, undergoing 4 stages in its course of development, namely, development, flourishing, decline and rejuvenation. This author claims that its developmental history can be divided into 5 periods, viz. embryonic stage of traditional thoracoscopic surgery and its flourishing, stagnation period, and the development and mature period of modern thoracoscopic surgery. In China, this discipline starts rather late and lags behing the advanced level of the world as a whole.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Medical University.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003933:Diagnosis; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000266:history*; D013906:Thoracoscopy