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Shota Awane

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Review Open access Oct 2026

Current Status, Clinical Outcomes and Socioeconomic Challenges of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery in Japan Compared with Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: A Narrative Review

Multiportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was introduced in Japan in the 1990s, with uniportal VATS (U-VATS) and robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) following in the 2010s. U-VATS gained significant traction after the 1st Fellowship of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery (JACS; currently the Jap...

Takahiro Homma, Shota Awane, M. Tamura et al. · 0 citations

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