Main description:

This book provides a guide to the surgical techniques required in thoracic surgery. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has become a standard surgical technique in the field of thoracic surgery recently. In addition, the evolution of video equipment and surgical instruments, and robotic devices lead to the rapid development of surgical techniques.

Providing the latest and detailed surgical techniques and reviews of video-assisted thoracic surgery and robotic surgery in commonly performed thoracic surgery, and is expected to be of great help to general, thoracic, cardiothoracic, and cardiovascular surgeon who starts minimally invasive surgery.

Contents:

A.Lung.- 1. Establishment of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Program.- 2. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery wedge resection. 3. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Lobectomy.- 4. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Segmentectomy.- 5. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Pneumonectomy.- 6. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Mediastinal Lymph Node Dissection in Lung CancerSurgery.- 7. Management of Complications During Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Lung Resection and Lymph Node Dissection.- 8. Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.- B. Esophagus.- 1. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Esophagectomy.- 2. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Intrathoracic Anastomosis Technique.- 3. Robot-Assisted Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy with Total Mediastinal.- 4. Lymphadenectomy: A Guide to a Systematic Approach Using the Concept of Fascial Plane Dissection.- C. Thymectomy and others.- 1. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Thymectomy: Transpleural Approach.- 2. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Thymectomy: Subxiphoid Approach.- 3. Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Thymectomy.- 4. Non-intubated Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery.- 5. Non-conservative Management of Chylothorax.