Ethical aspects of a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery practice
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Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
Video assisted thoracoscopy is now a well established technique in the armamentarium of the thoracic surgeon. Jacobaeus is credited with the technique of thoracoscopy and the first clinical application dates from 1913. He performed adhesiolysis to enhance pneumothorax therapy of tuberculosis via a cystoscope introduced into the pleural cavity. Before the 1990s thoracoscopic surgery was restrict...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Visualized Surgery
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2221-2965
DOI: 10.21037/jovs.2016.12.08