Robot-assisted thoracoscopic bronchoplasty.

Robotic systems have been used to enhance the surgeon's dexterity and visualization in endoscopic surgery and thus facilitate refined dissection, suturing, and knot tying. We describe use of the da Vinci surgical system for robotic-assisted thoracoscopic bronchoplasty in patient with centrally located lung cancer.We used three robotic ports (a 12-mm trocar for the 30°-down camera and two 8-mm trocars for the robotic instrument arms) and one...