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video-assisted thoracic surgery (medicine) and Rebuck skin window technique (medicine)


video-assisted thoracic surgery (medicine)


Video-assisted thoracic surgery


A less morbid alternative to "open" thoracotomy that employs cameras, optic systems, percutaneous stapling devices, and assorted endoscopic graspers, retractors, and forceps. Also called Video thoracoscopic surgery, it can be selectively applied to various pulmonary, pleural, and pericardial lesions.


Rebuck skin window technique (medicine)


Rebuck skin window technique


An in vivo test of the inflammatory response in which the skin is abraded and a slide applied to the abraded area to permit visualization of leukocyte mobilization.