Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lowers the incidence of adhesion to the chest wall but not to the mediastinal and interlobar pleurae.

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Published in Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech on February 01, 2010

Authors

Kimitaka Tanaka1, Yasuhiro Hida, Kichizo Kaga, Hiroaki Kato, Mikiya Iizuka, Yasushi Cho, Satoshi Kondo

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgical Oncology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

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