AAMS Surgery & Clinical Practice · Vol. 1 · Issue 4 · 2024-12-15

Single-Port Thoracoscopic Lobectomy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Learning Curve Analysis

Sato K, Mori T, Hashimoto A
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan¹; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan²
DOI: 10.7759/aams.2024.0253
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Abstract

Analysis of the surgical learning curve for single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy in 300 consecutive NSCLC patients, identifying 40 cases as the threshold for technical proficiency.

Keywords: Thoracoscopic Surgery, Lung Cancer, VATS, Learning Curve, Single-Port

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