Meaning of transxyphoid | Babel Free

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“The use of thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary resection is widely accepted, and the number of incisions required has been reduced to a single port. 1 – 3 Hand-assisted transxyphoid lung metastasectomy was first reported in 1999; and the feasibility and long-term results of this technique were well documented in 2007. 4 Given the advances in minimally invasive surgery and techniques for the localization of lung nodules, 5 the single-port technique can be applied through a single subxyphoid incision to perform bilateral pulmonary metastasectomy and right middle lobectomy.”

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