Video-assisted thoracic surgery--the past, present status and the future.
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This paper reviews the development history, current status, and future perspectives of video-assisted thoracic surgery as it has replaced conventional open thoracotomy for various thoracic operations.
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Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has developed very rapidly in these two decades, and has replaced conventional open thoracotomy as a standard procedure for some simple thoracic operations as well as an option or a complementary procedure for some other more complex operations. In this paper we will review its development history, the present status and the future perspectives.
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