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摘要
Advantages of awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery may be named as protection from risks of general anesthesia and intubation, and decreasing the duration of hospital stay and overall costs. In this article, we present a 31-year-old male patient who was performed bullectomy with awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery under sedation and thoracic epidural anesthesia with a diagnosis of primary spontaneous pneumothorax. However, further studies are needed to assess the overall risks and benefits.
