Subxyphoid single-incision thoracoscopic pulmonary metastasectomy.

Thorac Cancer

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University Taipei, Taiwan.

Published: March 2015

Single-incision thoracoscopic surgery has increasingly attracted public interest and been applied in numerous thoracic procedures. However, single-incision thoracoscopic surgery is associated with requiring subsequent procedures, such as intercostal neuralgia. Herein, we extend the single-port technique of pulmonary metastasectomy through a single subxiphoid approach, and report the first two cases of this procedure to date.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448495PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12189DOI Listing

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