Does the Analgesic Technique in the Intraoperative Period Have Any Influence on Chronic Pain after Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery?

VIDEO-ASSISTED THORASCOPIC SURGERY (VATS) is increasingly used as an approach to pulmonary resections, including lobectomy, segmentectomy, and lung wedge resection. These patients require multiple surgical and intercostal port incisions and chest tube placement. The incidence of chronic postoperative pain after VATS has been reported to be as high as 25%-47% after 3 or 6 months, mostly owing to surgical incisions, local trauma, and the presence...