HighlightsAlveolar Echinococcosis is a rare but potentially fatal parasitic infection primarily affecting liver.The diagnosis and treatment can be difficult and clinical misinterpretation as malignancy is not rare.The principal treatment of Alveolar Echinococcosis is surgery accompanied with chemotherapy.
VATS lobectomy is a respected modality of anatomic lung resections nowadays. Video-assisted lobectomies without rib extractor fulfi l all current requirements for minimally invasive lung resections. This type of an anatomic pulmonary resection with a targeted treatment of hilar structures doesn't traumatize the intercostal space by using rib retractor. Videothoracoscope serves to visualize the surgical fi eld on the screen. Assisted VATS (aVATS) lobectomy is a procedure using 3-5 cm working incision. Fully endoscopic resection (VTS) or complete VATS lobectomy (cVATS) are operations performed only through ports, without working incision. The authors supplement the article with a videorecord of VATS lobectomy general technique (Fig. 4, Ref. 11). Text in PDF and video www.elis.sk. KEY WORDS: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, VATS lobectomy, general technique.
Abstract:The authors present their own unique original method of fi xation polydioxan biodegradable stents in the treatment of tracheal stenosis documented by pictures and video (Fig. 3, Ref. 12). Text in PDF www.elis.sk.
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