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About
Dr. Miho Aoyagi is a leading thoracic surgeon whose research centers on advancing minimally invasive surgical techniques for lung cancer and thymoma. Her major contributions focus on comparing and refining robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) against video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). In her most cited work (16 citations), she demonstrates that RATS offers comparable perioperative outcomes to VATS for thymoma, using rigorous inverse probability of treatment weighting to minimize bias. She further advances surgical safety by systematically analyzing intraoperative complications in robotic lung resections (10 citations), providing crucial guidance for thoracic surgeons. Dr. Aoyagi also innovates technique, introducing a novel interlobar fissure division method using the da Vinci vessel-sealing system, and proves that robotic surgery achieves equivalent lymph node dissection and N-factor upstaging rates to VATS in early-stage lung cancer. Her cumulative impact—with papers published in 2022 alone garnering nearly 40 citations—establishes her as a key voice in the evidence-based adoption of robotic thoracic surgery, directly improving patient outcomes and surgical standards.
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