Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery using an intra-muscle closure during removal of drain

First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan Correspondence to: Kazuhito Funai. First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan. Email: kfunai@hama-med.ac.jp. Provenance and Peer Review: This article was commissioned by the Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine. The article did not undergo external peer review. Comment on: Xu Y, Guo Z, Huang J, et al. Simple continuous suture to strengthen the closure of intra-muscle used in the removal of uni-portal videoassisted thoracoscopic surgery thoracic drainage tube. Ann Transl Med 2019;7:764.