Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · Oct 2002
Review[Video-assisted thoracic surgical lobectomy in conjunction with lymphadenectomy for lung cancer].
Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has been in widespread use since the beginning of the 1990s. The initial indications for VATS were benign lesions of the lung, pneumothorax, benign tumors, etc. ⋯ The 8-year survival rate of final stage IA lung cancers following VATS is 97.2%; this survival rate is significantly better than that with open thoracotomy. Here we report on our 10-year experience with VATS lobectomy, focusing on stage I lung cancer.