Flores Raja M, Alam Naveed
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2008 Feb;85(2):S710-5. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.09.055.
Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy provides a minimally invasive approach for the management of early-stage lung cancer. Questions about the safety of VATS lobectomy and its adequacy as a cancer operation compared with open thoracotomy have hindered its universal acceptance among thoracic surgeons. Evidence suggests that VATS lobectomy can be safely performed and is an adequate cancer operation for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. However, adequately powered well-balanced studies comparing VATS with open thoracotomy for lobectomy are lacking in the literature.
电视辅助胸腔镜手术（VATS）肺叶切除术为早期肺癌的治疗提供了一种微创方法。与开胸手术相比，VATS肺叶切除术的安全性及其作为癌症手术的充分性问题阻碍了它在胸外科医生中的广泛接受。有证据表明，VATS肺叶切除术可以安全地进行，并且是早期非小细胞肺癌的一种充分的癌症手术。然而，文献中缺乏将VATS与开胸肺叶切除术进行比较的有足够样本量且均衡的研究。
