Successful extirpation of thoracic pleural lipoma by single-port thoracoscopic surgery

Successful extirpation of thoracic pleural lipoma by single-port thoracoscopic surgery

Video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS) is a common technique for thoracic operations. Surgery with access via a single port has gradually become popular. We herein report the unusual case of a 53-year-old Japanese male patient whose chest X-rays revealed an abnormal shadow, which continued to inc...

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Main Authors: Soichi Oka, Hidetaka Uramoto, Takeshi Hanagiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-07-01
Series:Asian Journal of Surgery
Subjects:
chest wall
lipoma
single port
VATS
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1015958411000108

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