title: A 3-cm Single-port Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy for Lung Cancer.
abstract: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is advantageous over traditional surgical practices, because of a faster postoperative recovery period, less pain, and a shorter hospital length of stay. There is no single standard technique in the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery approach. Although these "minimally invasive" resections are habitually performed through 3-port or 4-port incision, we performed a left lower lobectomy in a 54-year-old male patient for lung cancer, through a 3-cm single-port incision.
authors.affiliation: Departments of *Thoracic Surgery ‡Chest Diseases, Van Regional Training and Research Hospital †Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Yüzüncü Yil University, Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ilhan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ocakcioglu
authors.forename: Fuat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sayir
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dinc
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020708:Thoracoscopes; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed