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Thoracoscopy and Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery

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Abstract

Thoracoscopy was first described by Jacobeus [1] in 1910, when he used an electrically illuminated cystoscope to lyse adhesions within the pleural space in the application of collapse therapy for tuberculosis. The mediastinoscope inserted into the pleural space was substituted for the cystoscope by several generations of thoracic surgeons prior to the current technologic revolution. These early instruments, however, were hampered by poor lighting and optics, which limited applications to pleural biopsies, drainage of effusions, and lysis of pleural adhesions [1–3].

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  1. Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    David C. Brooks MD (Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery) (Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery)

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Jaklitsch, M.T., Flores, R.M., De Camp, M.M. (1998). Thoracoscopy and Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery. In: Brooks, D.C. (eds) Current Review of Minimally Invasive Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1692-6_15

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