%0 Journal Article %T Robot-assisted thoracic surgery in Colombia: a multi-institutional initial experience %A Juliana Restrepo %A Miguel Ricardo Buitrago %J Archive of "Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery". %D 2019 %R 10.21037/acs.2019.03.01 %X Robotic assisted videothoracoscopic surgery (RVATS) adoption has increased worldwide from 3.4% in 2010 to 17.5% in 2015. However, in Latin America, the literature is limited to a report of a series of 10 patients who underwent RVATS lobectomy and one case report of an RVATS thymectomy from Brazil %K Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) %K video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) %K da Vinci surgical system %K thoracic surgery %K pulmonary adenocarcinoma %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6462562/