Abstract

Starting from 1990’s, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has commonly been used in thoracic surgery clinics. This is a minimally invasive operative technique where the surgery is performed through 2–4 incisions without any rib spreading under the camera vision of surgical field. Including oncological surgery for non-small cell lung cancer, the VATS experience and knowledge has increased in time. These beneficial and successful results encourage thoracic surgeons to perform surgery via smaller sized and number of incisions. This modification brought the definition of ‘Uniportal VATS,’ which seems to be the highlighted future direction in thoracic surgery as reviewed in the present manuscript.

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