%0 Journal Article %T Robot-assisted surgery in complex treatment of the pulmonary tuberculosis %A Yablonskii, Piotr %A Kudriashov, Grigorii %A Vasilev, Igor %A Avetisyan, Armen %A Sokolova, Olga %J Journal of Visualized Surgery %D 2017 %B 2017 %9 %! Robot-assisted surgery in complex treatment of the pulmonary tuberculosis %K %X Surgery of pulmonary tuberculosis associated with open thoracotomy due to dense pleural and vascular adhesions. These reasons limited the use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in these cases. Robotic surgical system aimed to performing successfully minimally invasive operations for pulmonary tuberculosis. This paper showed 3-year experience of one chest center in this area. The results of this work are recommendations that facilitate the implementation of robot-assisted lung resection in complex treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. %U https://jovs.amegroups.org/article/view/13597 %V 3 %P %@ 2221-2965