A small 2023 study compared the outcomes of people with lung cancer who had either VATS or open surgery. The researchers found that VATS leads to: a shorter duration of surgery reduced ...

The procedure is performed with general anesthesia using a special endotracheal tube that allows intentional collapse of the lung which is operated ... specific outcomes are similar between VATS ...

Background: Postoperative infections, as related to risk factors, in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS ... was similar after lung wedge re-section and after pleural ...

Among those who received lung volume reduction surgery, a greater number of patients had video-assisted thoracoscopic/robotic surgery rather than open surgery (1,897 vs. 481). Of the two groups ...