电视辅助胸腔镜手术(Video-AssistedThoracoscopic Surgery.VATS),近年来已发展成为胸外科领域一种重要的治疗手段。使用 VATS 行食管癌切除,具有创伤小,恢复快的优点,克服了传统开胸术须切断或切除肋骨,致使胸廓完整性遭受破坏的不足,因此,尽管用 VATS 方法行食管癌切除在我国开展仅有几年时间,但却有了较快的发展并取得了可喜的进步,虽然病例数量方面与传统的开胸术在目前还无法相比,其远期疗效亦有待日后 Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) has become an important treatment method in the field of thoracic surgery in recent years. The use of VATS for resection of esophageal cancer has the advantages of less trauma and quicker recovery, overcoming the shortcomings of traditional thoracic surgery, such as the need to cut off or resection of ribs, resulting in destruction of thoracic integrity. Therefore, although VATS is used for esophageal cancer resection in our country Only a few years have passed, but there has been rapid development and gratifying progress has been made. Although the number of cases is not comparable to conventional thoracotomy, its long-term efficacy remains to be seen in the future.