%0 Journal Article
%T A systematic review of robotic versus open and video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) approaches for thymectomy
%A April E. Hebert
%A Donna Eaton
%A Karen C. Redmond
%A Katie E. O¡¯Sullivan
%A Usha S. Kreaden
%J Archive of "Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery".
%D 2019
%R 10.21037/acs.2019.02.04
%X Median sternotomy has been the most commonly used approach for thymectomy to date. Recent advances in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and robotic access with CO2 insufflation techniques have allowed more minimally invasive approaches. However, prior reviews have not compared robotic to both open and VATS thymectomy
%K Thymectomy
%K robotic
%K video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)
%K da Vinci
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6462547/