Introduction

Search for a title which properly explains the aim of a paper and covers the full contents of the article in question is rarely a success story. It is more true, if one intends to outline the very basics of a seemingly highly sophisticated field like thoracoscopic surgery and ends it up in a kind of a cooking book compiled by ingredients. Present day's surgical practice being protocol-bound and evidence-freak, it does not offer a warm invitation for pioneering initiatives. But is thoracoscopic surgery so mystically complicated as it looks like or as it is said to be ? This is an attempt of saying no and yet providing a proper explanation for the attitude presented. The reader ...