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Subcostal Specimen Removal in Completely Portal Robotic Lobectomy
Published on: April 19, 2024
Simultaneous stapling of pulmonary vein and bronchus in video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy
Guangliang Qiang1, Jun Nakajima
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China; Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
We present the case of a 66-year-old female who had undergone pulmonary wedge resection for diagnosis and followed by a radical lobectomy for the treatment of the primary lung cancer. We performed a left upper lobectomy through Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS), we successfully adapted simultaneous stapling technique to division of both pulmonary vein and lobar bronchus which were densely adhered each other because of the previous surgery.
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