This state-of-the-art issue on the techniques and outcomes of Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) is dedicated to the first world meeting on uniportal VATS in Naples. Our guest editor for this issue is Professor Gaetano Rocco, Director of Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, Chief of Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Italy. This special issue, to be published in August 2013 issue of Journal of Thoracic Disease, will serve as a great platform for academic communication between VATS experts worldwide by displaying featured articles contributed by key experts in this field. Please follow up on this special issue to learn the latest update for VATS as a conventional approach and appreciate the current status of uniportal VATS.
We believe that this issue, as a comprehensive review of VATS and will reflect a collaborative effort from multiple international contributors, will be illuminative for all experts interested in related field.
Following is the outline for this special issue:
Preface
VATS and Uniportal VATS : a glimpse into the future
Author：Gaetano Rocco
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Italy
VATS – conventional approach
History of VATS lobectomy
Author: William S. Walker
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, UK
Techniques of VATS lobectomy
Author: John D. Mitchell
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado , USA
Contraindications of VATS lobectomy and determinants of conversion to open
Author: Thomas A. D’Amico
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Current costs of VATS lobectomy
Author: Scott J. Swanson
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Indication for VATS sublobar resections for early stage lung cancer
Author: Antonio E Martin-Ucar
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Techniques of VATS segmentectomy
Author: Dominique Gossot
Thoracic Department, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France
Teaching of VATS lobectomy
Author: David R. Jones
Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Uniportal VATS
History and indications of uniportal pulmonary wedge resections
Author: Gaetano Rocco
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology , Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Italy
Geometric advantage of uniportal VATS
Author: Luca Bertolaccini
Thoracic Surgery Unit, S. Croce City Hospital, Cuneo, Italy
Uniportal VATS for pneumothorax and interstitial lung disease
Author: Alessandro Brunelli
Section Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Italy
Uniportal VATS in Asia
Author: Calvin SH Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
Uniportal VATS segmentectomy
Author: Diego Gonzalez-Rivas
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Uniportal VATS lobectomy
Author: Diego Gonzalez-Rivas
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Uniportal VATS pneumonectomy
Author: Diego Gonzalez-Rivas
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain