title: [Consensus of Verticality and Horizontality on the Monitor in Three-ports Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery].
abstract: Video-assisted thoracic surgery( VATS) has been utilized worldwide for treatment of thoracic disease in recent years. Then, in most VATS, the thoracoscope was handled by young surgeons consequently. In VATS, a role of the scopist is very important, because if there is no consensus of verticality and horizontality on the monitor among operator, assistant and scopist, it is difficult to perform the surgery smoothly. Therefore, it is important for young surgeons to improve their skills as scopist. However, there are few models of verticality and horizontality on the monitor and thoracoscope techniques of VATS. We present our consensus of verticality and horizontality on the monitor in the standard 3-ports VATS by right upper lobectomy and left upper lobectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamanashi
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shoji
authors.forename: Junko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tokuno
authors.forename: Ryota
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sumitomo
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sonobe
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Date
authors.forename: Cheng-Long
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D020708:Thoracoscopes