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Transbronchial localization of small pulmonary lesions for thoracoscopic resection
Tohru Mawatari1, Atsushi Watanabe, Hisayoshi Ohsawa
1Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. t-mawatari@hospital.hakodate.hokkaido.jp
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|May 23, 2006
Abstract:
The localization of small lung masses at thoracoscopic operation is very difficult. A 67-year-old female with tiny pulmonary metastases of renal cell carcinoma primary was successfully treated by pulmonary thoracoscopic resection after transbronchial localization using a dye.