Treatment of pulmonary nodule: from VATS to RATS

VATS intraoperative tattooing to facilitate solitary pulmonary nodule resection

INTRODUCTION Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has become routine and widely accepted for the removal of solitary pulmonary nodules of unknown etiology. Thoracosopic techniques continue to evolve with better instruments, robotic applications, and increased patient acceptance and awareness. Several techniques have been described to localize peripheral pulmonary nodules, including pre-operat...

Transition from three-port vats pulmonary resections to uniportal vats pulmonary resections: a single center experience

Results 10 major pulmonary resections (9 lobectomies and 1 segmentectomy) and 28 wedge resections (7 pneumothorax, 16 lung cancers, 2 interstitial lung disease, 1 hamartoma, 1 tuberculoma, 1 fibrous tumor of pleura) were performed by a single surgeon. With wedge resections, mean postoperative hospital length of stay, chest tube duration, and operative duration were 3 days, 2.07 days, and 69 min...

VATS segmentectomy for pulmonary metastasis.

VATS Lobectomy: Surgical Evolution from Conventional VATS to Uniportal Approach

There is no standardized technique for the VATS lobectomy, though most centres use 2 ports and add a utility incision. However, the procedure can be performed by eliminating the two small ports and using only the utility incision with similar outcomes. Since 2010, when the uniportal approach was introduced for major pulmonary resection, the technique has been spreading worldwide. The single-por...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...