• Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Neijiang, Neijiang Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Neijiang, 641000, Sichuan P.R.China;
XIE Xiaoyang, Email: 13990559066@163.com
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Objective  To explore the safety, feasibility and learning curve of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS) in treatment of thoracic diseases. Method  We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 591 patients of thoracic surgery in our hospital between September 2009 and September 2016. There were 378 males and 213 females at age of 14–82 years. Result  All patients were successfully completed surgery. Twelve patients converted to open chest with conversion rate of 2.0%. Postoperative complications occurred in 24 patients (4.1%). Four patients died during the perioperative period, and mortality rate was 0.7%. The learning curve of VATS for lung cancer was about 25 patients. And the learning curve of video-assisted laparoscopy for resection of esophageal cancer was about 15 patients. Conclusion  VATS is safety and feasible for the chest disease patients in municipal hospital, and is worthy to popularize.

Citation: WANG Yi, YANG Yanhui, LUO Lei, XIE Xiaoyang. Treatment of chest disease with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in municipal Hospital. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017, 24(9): 725-729. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.201610020 Copy

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