Lung Herniation After Uniportal VATS

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Thoracoscopy; Lung Hernia; Postoperative

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04566094

17092020

Details and patient eligibility

About

During patient follow up the investigators noticed the occasional occurence of a lung herniation after uniportal Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Most of These patients were asymptomatic and didn't require any kind of treatment. To analyse the incidence of postoperative lung herniation after uniportal and the presence of symptoms the investigators decided to review every postoperative CT scan from January 2016 until March 2019 to radiologically identify postoperative lung herniations. Afterwards the investigators will contact the respective patient to ask for a follow-up physical examination and symptom evaluation (after consent was signed).

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Anatomical lung resection using uniportal VATS

Exclusion criteria

• Non anatomical lung resection
• Open surgery
• Pneumonectomy
• Informed consent not signed