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Total Citations
260
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About
Veronica Manolache is a pioneering thoracic surgeon whose research has fundamentally advanced the field of minimally invasive thoracic surgery, with a particular focus on uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (U-RATS). Her work centers on developing and refining surgical techniques that allow complex lung resections — including sleeve lobectomies, carinal reconstructions, and major pulmonary resections — to be performed through a single intercostal incision without rib spreading. Manolache has been instrumental in establishing U-RATS as a viable and superior evolution of conventional multiport robotic and video-assisted approaches, combining the precision of robotic instrumentation with the minimized invasiveness of uniportal access. Her most cited work, "Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery for lung resections" (2022, 67 citations), established foundational principles for this emerging technique, while her multicenter European comparative study demonstrated its broader clinical applicability. Collectively, her ten most-cited publications have accumulated over 248 citations within just two years, reflecting remarkable and rapid uptake by the surgical community. Manolache's contributions — spanning technical guides, propensity score analyses, and complex case reports — have provided surgeons worldwide with a comprehensive roadmap for adopting this transformative approach to thoracic oncology.
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Top Papers
- 1Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery for lung resections67 citations · 2022
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- 3Uniportal fully robotic-assisted major pulmonary resections33 citations · 2023
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- 9Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery for mediastinal tumors7 citations · 2022
- 10Uniportal fully robotic-assisted bronchovascular sleeve bilobectomy6 citations · 2023