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2021 Jan 06


Ann Palliat Med

Postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing robot-assisted thoracic surgery: a comparison between thoracic epidural analgesia and intercostal nerve block combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia.

Abstract

Recently, robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is increasingly applied to lung or mediastinal tumor surgery. However, appropriate methods of postoperative analgesia for RATS have not been studied.