Ian Tollemache is seeking answers after a surgeon mistakenly removed the wrong part of his lung. The Health and Disability ...

Complex airway surgery, particularly tracheal/carinal resection and reconstruction, is still considered as the “crown jewel” of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Notably, during these ...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a minimally invasive technique. A VATS lobectomy, or thoracoscopic lobectomy, procedure is performed ...

Or you may just get one cut, called a uniport VATS (U-VATS) surgery. After guiding a tube with a tiny video camera into your chest, your surgeon can see inside it. The tube helps get the surgical ...

A VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery) resection involves a minimally invasive surgery to remove a small, wedge-shaped piece of lung tissue. Kellie had metastic cancer tissue, which are the ...

or three-cm incisions for Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS), MediScene learns. The other advanced techniques used here are mediastinoscopy carried out with a special scope to biopsy ...