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Focused Issue: Minimally invasive VATS thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis

Published: 2016-09-23
Focused Issue: Minimally invasive VATS thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis
Guest Editor: Alper Toker, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, 
Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery


Guest Editor: Alper Toker, MD

This focused issue edited by Dr. Alper Toker aims to present the recently released techniques and their details in the field of Minimally invasive VATS thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis. This special issue is going to be published at the end of 2016.

Currently, the outline of this focused issue is as follows.

❖Preface
 Alper Toker/Turkey

❖Right-sided VATS thymectomy
 Alper Toker/Turkey

❖Left-sided VATS thymectomy

❖Right-sided uniportal VATS thymectomies

 Diego Gonzalez-Rivas/Spain

❖Bilateral VATS thymectomy
 Joshua R.Sonett/USA

❖Subxiphoid VATS thymectomy
 Takashi Suda/ Japan

❖Subxiphoid-VATS approach
 Marcin Zielinski/Poland

❖Robotic thymectomy: technical tips
 Giuseppe Marulli/ Italy

❖Perioperative complications and managements: experience in more than 500 cases
 Alper Toker/Turkey