Current Thoracic Surgery, cilt.8, sa.3, ss.155-159, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
As in all surgical branches, the importance of minimally invasive
surgery in thoracic surgery has been increasing in recent years. Especially in
the last decade, the preference of thoracic surgeons is mostly in favor of
VATS. As a result of today's developing technology and experience,
minimally invasive surgery is not limited to surgical technique only, and
less invasive non-intubated methods have been started to be used in
anesthesia applications. While non-intubated (awake) VATS is usually
applied for reasons such as pleural effusion, empyema, hemothorax,
pneumothorax, it is now preferred for anatomical resection of the lung. We
also prefer the awake VATS method in suitable patients in our clinic. In this
study, we aimed to talk about our case in which we performed left lower
lobectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection with awake uVATS
(uniportal VATS) method in our clinic.