Main description:

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Gaetano Rocco, is devoted to Single-port/Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Rocco has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: The Geometric and Ergonomic Appeal of Uniportal VATS; Management of Intraoperative Difficulties During Uniportal VATS; Hybrid Theatre and Uniportal VATS: the Perfect Match for Lung Nodule Localization; Important Technical Details in Uniportal VATS Standard Major Pulmonary Resections; When Uniportal VATS is Contraindicated; Subxyphoid Uniportal VATS Procedures; Uniportal VATS Segmentectomy; The Case for Non Intubated/Awake Anesthesia for Uniportal VATS Procedures; Uniportal VATS Esophagectomy; Complex Pulmonary Resections Through Uniportal VATS; Training in Uniportal VATS; Fast-tracking Patients Through the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Pathways of Intrathoracic Conditions: the Role of Uniportal VATS; and more!

Contents:

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Uniportal/Single-Port Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Preface: E Pluribus Unum (From the Many, Only One)

The Geometric and Ergonomic Appeal of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Management of Intraoperative Difficulties During Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

Hybrid Theater and Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: The Perfect Match

for Lung Nodule Localization

Important Technical Details During Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Major Resections

Are There Contraindications for Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery?

Subxiphoid Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Procedure

Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Segmentectomy

Nonintubated-Awake Anesthesia for Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Procedures

Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Esophagectomy

Training in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Fast-Tracking Patients Through the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Pathways of Intrathoracic Conditions: The Role of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery