Single lung resection: The limits of the possible. Clinical report.

Introduction: Single lung resection remains a challenge due to the preservation of the respiratory reserve. This report presents that case of a female patient with bilateral fibrotic-cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis complicated with empyema on the right lung. Only 3.

Video-assisted thoracoplasty in pulmonary tuberculosis: a retrospective study.

Background: The long history of the struggle against tuberculosis (TB) inspired us to develop a new minimally invasive technique of thoracoplasty with videothoracoscope control (VATP). The aim of this study was to determine its efficacy.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective single-center study of a cohort of patients operated on between 1999 and 2017.