Three Hundred Fifty-One Patients With Pneumothorax Undergoing Uniportal (Single Port) Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Hicham Masmoudi, MD, Harry Etienne, MD, Raphaëlle Sylvestre, MD, Diane Evrard, MD, Raphaël Ouede, MD, Marielle Le Roux, MD, Mihaela Giol, MD, Jalal Assouad, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages 254-260 (July 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.054 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 The intercostal space (long red arrow) is opened widely on either side of the skin incision (short red arrow). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 104, 254-260DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.054) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 The 30° video-thoracosope, articulated stapler, and straight parenchymal grasper are simultaneously introduced. The left side of the figure shows the reproduction of the triangulation (the blue arrow represents the target to resect). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 104, 254-260DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.054) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Summary of the 816 patients treated for pneumothorax. (VATS = video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 104, 254-260DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.054) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions