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  2. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery - Wikipedia

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    Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a type of minimally invasive thoracic surgery performed using a small video camera mounted to a fiberoptic thoracoscope (either 5 mm or 10 mm caliber), with or without angulated visualization, which allows the surgeon to see inside the chest by viewing the video images relayed onto a television screen, and perform procedures using elongated ...

  3. Thoracoscopy - Wikipedia

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    Thoracoscopy is a medical procedure involving internal examination, biopsy and/or resection/drainage of disease or masses within the pleural cavity, [1] usually with video assistance. Thoracoscopy may be performed either under general anaesthesia or under sedation with local anaesthetic .

  4. Lung surgery - Wikipedia

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    Lung surgeries can be perceived as invasive procedures that may cause side effects such as bruising, swelling, numbness, pain, scarring and infection. However, new methods such as video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) provide a minimally invasive method which can eliminate diseased parts of the lungs and lymph nodes. A development of ...

  5. Category:Thoracic surgical procedures - Wikipedia

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    Category for surgical procedures in thoracic surgery. ... Thoracoscopy; Thoracotomy ... Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery This page was last ...

  6. Decortication - Wikipedia

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    Decortication is performed under general anaesthesia.It is a major thoracic operation that has traditionally required a full thoracotomy.Since the early '90s this procedure has increasingly been performed using more minimally invasive thoracoscopy.

  7. Pleurodesis - Wikipedia

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    It is usually performed at the time of a diagnostic thoracoscopy. [citation needed] Povidone iodine is equally effective and safe as talc, and may be preferred because of easy availability and low cost. [6] Chemical pleurodesis is a painful procedure, and so patients are often premedicated with a sedative and analgesics.

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  9. Category:Pulmonary thoracic surgery - Wikipedia

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    Thoracoscopy; Thoracotomy; V. VATS lobectomy ... Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; W. Wedge resection (lung) This page was last edited on 22 September 2019, at 23 ...