Left upper lobectomy and pulmonary angioplasty by uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas and his colleagues performed the first case for pulmonary major resection by the uniportal approach in 2010. In the following years, more and more expert surgeons developed the uniportal approach and even applied it to very complex cases. Many centers have showed that uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy is a safe and feasible technique. The patient presented here is a complex case: The lingular segmental artery was invaded seriously by the tumor and it was difficult to divide it freely, and the pulmonary artery plasty was needed. Although this condition made the procedure some technically challenging, the case was performed successfully without any operative complications.