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Min Zhang1, Ning Mao2, Qing-Chen Wu1
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|February 4, 2021
Abstract:
We report the thoracoscopic RS5 segmentectomy with VVBA (V, vein; V, ventilation; B, bronchus; A, artery) method and confirmed that the segmental plane visualized by vein-first resection is slightly narrower than the traditional artery-first resection.

