Chemical pleurodesis. The surgeon puts a chemical, usually talc, into the pleural space (the space between your lungs and your chest wall.)‌ Mechanical pleurodesis. The surgeon abrades (brushes) the ...

For the first time, Max Super Speciality Hospital performed a Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) keyhole surgery of the chest for a collapsed lung on a patient affected from Covid-19 ...

A new meta-analysis provided high-quality evidence demonstrating that video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) significantly reduces the risk for death by 21% compared with open lobectomy in ...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive procedure that doctors use to diagnose and treat chest conditions. During a VATS procedure, a surgeon inserts a thin tube with a ...

Robotic surgery for lung cancer involves using a camera that provides a detailed view of the inside of a person’s chest. The term “robotic” can be misleading, as it is not a robot that performs the ...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a minimally invasive technique. A VATS lobectomy, or thoracoscopic lobectomy, procedure is performed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with stage I non–small cell lung cancer who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery experienced ...

BECAUSE of the high cost of some of the equipment needed, a surgical procedure touted to improve the quality of a patient’s life after surgery was rarely performed in the Philippines until recently — ...

Researchers took both the learning curve of the new process and the COVID-19 pandemic into consideration. A new cost analysis found some evidence that the initial increased costs associated with robot ...