Minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer characteristics, surgical techniques and anesthesia with the rapid development of technology, the majority of surgical treatment of lung cancer by minimally invasive surgery can be safely completed. Minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer is currently the main muscle thoracoscopic treatment of non-invasive and minimally invasive surgery. The former has the advantage of trauma, but has its limitations, mainly for cancer is very small by comparison and the location of early peripheral lung cancer patients.
Lung Cancer Treated with minimally invasive surgery, lung resection is major surgery, heart and lung function to a certain extent, the traditional posterolateral incision in the chest muscle and nerve injury on the big, obvious pain, cough and expectoration of patients even lead to side movement disorders surgery. With the continuous development of surgical techniques, minimally invasive surgery has been gradually in-depth surgical sub-fields, broad in minimally invasive surgery, including surgery to reduce trauma, reduce postoperative pain and operation of all improvements, such as the patient is currently widely Chest both sides to accept a small incision, the muscles are not cut off the thoracotomy incision and so on.
The narrow sense refers to minimally invasive video-assisted lung resection thoracoscopic lung resection (VATS), the surgical resection of lung cancer compared to the traditional, less invasive, fewer complications and quicker recovery, but to strictly control the surgical indication.
Minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer characteristics, both ways more than a combination of surgery, the first VATS to determine whether to continue with thoracotomy. No matter which type of surgical procedure were not at the expense of the principles of the cost of radical tumor. There is no to video-assisted thoracoscopic resection of lung cancer surgery (VATS) as a standard surgical approach, but used for the diagnosis of mediastinal direct observation of the operation, lung and obtain biopsy, diagnosis of the causes of pleural effusion pleurodesis in parallel. This is done in the operated side after general anesthesia a small incision in the chest wall to take 2_3, and thus into endoscopic and other surgical instruments, sometimes with a small incision to be combined. Of surgery also have to be placed chest tube.