Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS): a single center experience and review.

ABSTRACT: Lung cancer screening techniques using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans have improved over the last decade. This means that there is an increased rate of detection of small, often non-palpable, nodules and ground-glass opacities. Obtaining a definitive diagnosis of these nodules using techniques such as percutaneous image-guided biopsy or intraoperative localization is challenging, and these nodules have traditionally undergone routine surveillance. Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS), which is performed in a hybrid operating room, has made it more feasible to biopsy and resect these nodules. The first thoracic surgery hybrid operative room was introduced at our institution at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Herein, we describe our experience implementing this

SUBMITTER: Pezeshkian F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10797359 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature