From October 1991 to June 1992 video-endoscopic lung surgery was applied in a total of 109 patients. In the first case a pulmonary cyst measuring 15 x 18 cm was resected. In 21 patients lung nodules were exstirpated by means of wedge resection. Moreover, metastasectomies, open lung biopsies, parietal pleurectomies, resections of bullae, and decortications, as well as 3 lower-lobe lobectomies were performed using video-endoscopic procedures. Closure of lung parenchyma was carried out using the 3 cm Endo-GIA stapler (Autosuture). In none of the patients were we forced to enlarge the intervention to a thoracotomy because of technical problems. Indications, operative technique and results are presented. This new technique offers all the known advantages of minimally invasive surgery to patients requiring thoracic surgery.
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