[Minimally invasive thoracic surgery: a fifteen-years experience].
The evolution of surgical techniques has rendering possible for thoracic surgery to be performed efficiently and safely, with less aggressive approaches. Being less traumatic, minimally invasive surgery allows a faster post-operative recovery, less complications and reduces in patient days and morbidity. The authors consider as minimally invasive approaches the video-assisted thoracic surgery, as well as the minithoractomy and the ministernotomy. The present paper reviews thoracic surgeries performed for the last 15 years in a cardiothoracic surgical unit using a minimally invasive surgical approach.
Fragoso
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Serviços de Pneumologia I e de Cirurgia Cardio-Torácica do H. St. Maria, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Norte.
Cruz
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J
Caldeira
J
J
Ferreira
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R
Roque
J
J
Gallego
J
J
Guerra
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N
Cravino
J
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