04_OA_13.02278 Mogi.indd
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Regarding abdominal surgery, many reports of the usefulness of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) for appendectomy, cholecystectomy, and inguinal hernioplasty have been published.1) Furthermore, many papers on urology and gynecology citing examples of SILS have been published.2,3) In contrast, in the case of singleport (or incision) thoracoscopic surgery, the technological gap is obvious. The use of a SILS port for thoracic surgery is unconventional, and the access window to the thoracic wall is narrow and less flexible because of the ribs. Previously, we developed a new retractor that is sufficiently useful to hold the large intestine during a colorectal resection to allow enter without a trocar port.4) In this study, we present a less invasive single-incision thoracoscopic surgery (SITS) technique using a new, modified retractor.
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