Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for cancer. Risk of parietal seeding and of early local recurrence.

摘要: Both parietal seeding and early local recurrence have been anecdotally (24 cases) reported in the surgical literature after video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for cancer. However, not all cases were undoubtedly related to thoracoscopic approach itself, several of those procedures addressed locally advanced neoplastic processes, protective measures against contamination taken one half patients. Strict adherence classic principles carcinologic should minimize risk both pleural grafting VATS