Modified pericostal suture technique to reduce postoperative pain and provide optimum anatomic restoration after conversion of minimally invasive thoracic surgery to thoracotomy

• Main Authors: Vasileios Leivaditis (Author), Konstantinos Grapatsas (Author), Benjamin Ehle (Author), Manfred Dahm (Author), Antonios Chatzimichalis (Author), Emmanuil Margaritis (Author), Nikolaos Baltayiannis (Author), Nikolaos Charokopos (Author), George Sakellaropoulos (Author), Georgios-Ioannis Verras (Author), Dimitrios Schizas (Author), Admir Mulita (Author), Ioannis Panagiotopoulos (Author), Francesk Mulita (Author), Efstratios Koletsis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Termedia Publishing House, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Minimally invasive thoracic techniques often need to be converted to open thoracotomy. Thoracotomy is associated with severe postoperative pain in 50% of the patients, and this situation can be maintained for a prolonged period. Many efforts have been made to avoid this complication. We propose an e...