Bilateral anterior minithoracotomy with video assistance for lung volume reduction surgery and pulmonary metastasectomy.
Incisional access to pulmonary pathology involving both lungs has often involved bilateral standard thoracotomies, median sternotomy, and, recently, sequential lateral video-assisted thoracic surgical approaches. Significant problems are inherent to each of these approaches. We introduce a hybrid technique of bilateral simultaneous minithoracotomy with video assistance as an alternative to these other surgical approaches.
d'Amato
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Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Lung Center, 02 level, South Tower, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA.
Santucci
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Macherey
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Bartley
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Maley
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Landreneau
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D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods*; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery / Q000379:methods*