“…documented bilateral thoracotomy for PSP in 1957, 23,24 but this concept was controversial. Later, several reports promoted median sternotomy with bilateral thoracic surgery for PSP to eliminate bilateral thoracotomies 8,25 . Since its use in the treatment of unilateral PSP, VATS has shown many advantages including decreased operation time, reduced surgical pain, good cosmetic outcome and early recovery, and various single‐stage or two‐stage VATS procedures for treatment of BPSP (contralateral recurrence or simultaneous) have been tried 12–14,19,26,27 .…”