%0 Journal Article %T From manual to robotic video-assisted resection of posterior mediastinal masses %A Giulia Veronesi %A Michela Solinas %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2017 %R 10.21037/jtd.2017.08.118 %X Guo and colleagues described the technique of a robotic-assisted resection of a posterior mediastinal mass, using a three arms robotic approach with the aid of CO2 insufflation, and concluded that this approach was efficient and reliable (1). During the last 10¨C15 years the robotic-assisted approach has become a consolidated alternative technique to traditional video-assisted surgery and open approach, for the treatment of many thoracic diseases (2) %U http://jtd.amegroups.com/article/view/15621/html