%0 Journal Article %T The significance of pulmonary fissure completeness in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery %A Lee, Seokkee %A Lee, Jin Gu %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2018 %B 2018 %9 %! The significance of pulmonary fissure completeness in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery %K %X One of the major treatment options for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer is surgical resection. Among the several resection subtypes, anatomical lobectomy remains the standard treatment of choice. Since the introduction of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in the 1990s, there has been a paradigm shift in lung cancer surgery. VATS has developed considerably as a technique and is widely accepted in lung cancer treatment. This minimally invasive approach has several advantages over traditional thoracotomy, such as faster recovery, reduced pain, shorter hospital-stay duration, and fewer morbidities (1,2). %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/25678 %P S420-S421 %@ 2077-6624