Uniportal robotic thoracic surgery - an early Indian experience.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Thoracic surgery has been conventionally performed via thoracotomy over many years. However, over the past few decades, lung surgery has evolved from open to minimally invasive surgery. Our robotic thoracic surgery programme started in October 2022. Since we were already performing uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (Uniportal VATS), we found it difficult to get oriented to the multi-port approach. So we decided to perform uniportal robot-assisted thoracic surgery (URATS). This article represents our initial experience in URATS.

Methods

We analysed the data of people who underwent URATS at our hospital. Twenty-one patients were included in this study. This was a retrospective study. Out of the 21 patients, 14 patients underwent surgery for benign conditio

SUBMITTER: Narasimhan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11832869 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature