Image-guided video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS) - phase I-II clinical trial

Purpose To facilitate localization and resection of small lung nodules, we developed a prospective clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov number {"type":"clinical-trial","attrs":{"text":"NCT01847209","term_id":"NCT01847209"}}NCT01847209) for a novel surgical approach which combines placement of fiducials using intra-operative C-arm computed tomography (CT) guidance with standard thoracoscopic resection technique using image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS).