Tubeless video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung cancer: is it ready for prime time?

Yaokai Wen; Yu Jiang; Hengrui Liang; Long Jiang; Zhihua Guo; Clive Musonza; R Lucas Thomas 3rd; Chenglin Yang; Jiaxi He; Jianfei Shen; Lei Chen; Haibo Sun; Gavin M Wright; Jian Zhang; Qintai Yang; Shengyi Zhong; Wenhua Liang; Shuben Li; Jianrong Zhang; Jianxing He

doi:10.2217/fon-2020-0278

Tubeless video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung cancer: is it ready for prime time?

Future Oncol. 2020 Jun;16(18):1229-1234. doi: 10.2217/fon-2020-0278. Epub 2020 May 7.

Authors

Yaokai Wen^{1

2

3}, Yu Jiang^{1

2

3}, Hengrui Liang^{1

2}, Long Jiang^{1

2}, Zhihua Guo^{1

2}, Clive Musonza⁴, R Lucas Thomas 3rd^{5

6}, Chenglin Yang⁷, Jiaxi He⁸, Jianfei Shen⁹, Lei Chen^{2

10}, Haibo Sun¹¹, Gavin M Wright^{12

13

14}, Jian Zhang¹⁵, Qintai Yang¹⁶, Shengyi Zhong¹⁷, Wenhua Liang¹, Shuben Li¹, Jianrong Zhang^{4

14

18}, Jianxing He^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510120, PR China.
² State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510120, PR China.
³ Nanshan School, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511436, PR China.
⁴ Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
⁵ Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
⁶ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
⁷ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shenzhen Center, Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518116, PR China.
⁸ University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA.
⁹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou Medical University, Linhai, Zhejiang 317000, PR China.
¹⁰ Department of Anesthesia, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510120, PR China.
¹¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Henan Cancer Hospital, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450008, PR China.
¹² Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne; Division of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
¹³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3065, Australia.
¹⁴ Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Center, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
¹⁵ Thoracic Surgery Department, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, PR China.
¹⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, PR China.
¹⁷ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xianning Central Hospital, Xianning, Wuhan 437100, PR China.
¹⁸ Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School; Cancer in Primary Care Research Group, Centre for Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.

PMID: 32379503
DOI: 10.2217/fon-2020-0278

No abstract available

Keywords: chest tube; locoregional anesthesia; lung cancer; spontaneous ventilation; tubeless VATS; urinary tube; video-assisted thoracic surgery.

Publication types

Editorial
Letter

MeSH terms

Clinical Decision-Making
Disease Management
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
Lung Neoplasms / surgery*
Pneumonectomy* / adverse effects
Pneumonectomy* / methods
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / adverse effects
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / methods*
Treatment Outcome