Uniportal, single incision VATS for the skeptics

As surgeons we are living in an amazing era. Rapid advances in technology transform our surgeries in countless ways. After 20 years the first uniportal VATS were performed (1-3), the procedure has its own space in the thoracic surgery (4), and this special issue takes the readers to reflect on the exciting recent development and future expectations of this modern and futuristic surgical approach. Furthermore this special issue has the goal to demonstrate and illuminate the distracted minds and the skeptic about the numerous potentiality of the uniportal-single incision VATS approach. The reason why we decided to call the special issue uniportal-single incision VATS is not only due to the never-ending dilemma with the definition (5, 6), but also to the pragmatic results which can be obtained from PUBMED. Roughly, at April 29, 2018 when the search words were “Uniportal VATS” 389 titles were available, while when …