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Non-Intubated Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
Published on: May 26, 2023
[Video-assisted thoracic surgery, lung transplantation and mediastinitis: major issues in thoracic surgery in 2010]
José M Borro1, Ramón Moreno, Ana Gómez
1Servicio de Cirugía Torácica, Hospital Universitario de A Coruña, A Coruña, España.
Abstract:
We reviewed the major issues in thoracic surgery relating to the advances made in our specialty in 2010. To do this, the 43(rd) Congress of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery held in La Coruña and the articles published in the Society's journal, Archivos de Bronconeumología, were reviewed. The main areas of interest were related to the development of video-assisted thoracic surgery, lung transplantation and descending mediastinitis. The new tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classification (7(th) edition), presented last year, was still a topical issue this year. The First Forum of Thoracic Surgeons and the Update in Thoracic Surgery together with the Nurses' Area have constituted an excellent teaching program.
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