| VATS |
Short for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. A surgical procedure performed inside the chest with the help of a camera on a tube. In VATS, several small incisions (cuts) are made in the chest. Doctors insert the tube with the camera through one incision, and tools to work with through the others. The camera helps the doctors see inside the chest to operate.
출처: www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/glossary.htm
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