Research Article: Uniportal video-assisted anatomical segmentectomy: an analysis of the learning curve
Abstract:
This study aimed to demonstrate the learning curve of anatomical segmentectomy performed by uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (U-VATS).
Introduction:
With the results of two phase III clinical trials (CALGB140503 [1] and JCOG0802 [2]), the application of anatomical segmentectomy for the treatment of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has obtained more sufficient evidence. To minimize surgical trauma, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been widely applied in recent years [3, 4]. Recently, with the rapid development of instruments and surgical techniques, uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomical segmentectomy has been gradually…
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