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As the leader in developing Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in China, we accomplished the first case in China in 1992. After 2005, we began regular VATS lobectomy and have completed more than 2500 VATS lobectomies till 2015. Chinese lung cancer patients have many special characteristics, such as more undeveloped interlobar fissures and more calcificatied hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes. This situation has caused us to develop more efficient and safer methods to undertake these difficult surgeries. We summarized and optimized our technique for the long-term minimally invasive thoracic surgical treatment for lung cancer (1). Here, we introduce our Wang’s technique to the readers, and wish it can be helpful when you encounter difficult cases.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University People’s Hospital, No.11 Xizhimen South Street, Beijing, 100044, China

    Kezhong Chen, Jun Wang, Lixin Zhou & Xiao Li

  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, No. 42, Baiziting, Nanjing, China

    Xu Lin MD

  3. Department of thoracic surgery, Coruña University Hospital and Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit (UCTMI), Xubias 84, 15006, Coruña, Spain

    Diego Gonzalez-Rivas

  4. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Yang Yang & Gening Jiang

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, 10002, Taiwan

    Ming-Hui Hung, Jin-Shing Chen & Ya-Jung Cheng

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Chen, K. et al. (2017). Technical Notes. In: Wang, J., K. Ferguson, M. (eds) Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgery for Lung and Esophageal Cancer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0835-5_11

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