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1 Better pulmonary function and prognosis with video-assisted thoracic surgery than with thoracotomy 
Shizuka Kaseda, MD, Teruhiro Aoki, MD, Nanae Hangai, MD, Kunihiko Shimizu, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 70, Issue 5, Pages (November 2000) DOI: /S (00)

2 Fig 1 Positions of access thoracotomy and additional incisions to facilitate lymph node dissection as well as lobectomy. (Reprinted from Kaseda S, Aoki T, Hangai N. Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The Japanese experience. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998;10:300–4 with the permission of W.B. Saunders Company.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (00) )

3 Fig 2 Ratio of postoperative to preoperative vital capacity.
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4 Fig 3 Ratio of postoperative to preoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (00) )

5 Fig 4 Survival of patients with stage I lung cancer undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy and open thoracotomy. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (00) )


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