Key Clinical MessageThe use of U‐VATS should be preferred to conventional three‐port VATS if skills are mastered as it causes less and single intercostal trauma. Moreover, it minimizes infection spread to the chest wall. We advocate the use of U‐VATS as a routine approach in patient with empyema stage III for positive outcome.
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