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Author Spotlight: A Non-Intubated Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery with Multimodal Analgesia and Sevoflurane Inhalation Anesthesia
Published on: May 26, 2023
Postoperative complications of pulmonary resection
A Thorpe1, J Rodrigues2, J Kavanagh3
1Radiology Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK.
Abstract:
Thoracic surgery has seen a resurgence in recent years with increasing numbers of cases taken on since the mid-2000s. There has been a paradigm shift in how we manage lung cancer with more emphasis on surgical resection, and this has been aided by minimally invasive video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) techniques. As a result, the prevalence of postoperative findings and complications is also increasing, and it is increasingly important for the general radiologist to recognise and diagnose these conditions as thoracic surgical patients may present acutely to non-thoracic surgical institutions. This review will cover both the early and late complications following a variety of lung resection surgeries.
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