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A technique for retrieving a lung lobe in a bag from a small wound during thoracoscopic surgery
Hiroyuki Oizumi1, Hirohisa Kato, Jun Suzuki
1Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-Nishi, Yamagata, 990-9585, Japan.
Surgery Today
|July 21, 2011
Abstract:
We herein describe our technique for removing lung specimens during thoracoscopic resection. This technique allows extraction of intact lung specimens through a small incision. We believe that it is feasible, can be easily and rapidly performed, and facilitates thoracoscopic lung resection by reducing the technical difficulties involved in specimen removal; we also think that it may be used in other thoracoscopic interventions.

