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Video-Assisted Surgery
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Definition
: Endoscopic surgical procedures performed with visualization via video transmission. When real-time video is combined interactively with prior CT scans or MRI images, this is called image-guided surgery (see SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED).
See Also
Video Recording
Examples
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted
Other names
Video-
Assisted Surgeries; Video Assisted Surgery; Surgery, Video Assisted; Surgeries, Video-
Assisted; Surgery, Video-
Assisted