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Improved method for deep thoracoscopic lung nodule excision
T L Demmy1, D Nielson, J J Curtis
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Missouri-Columbia 65212, USA.
Missouri Medicine
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
Minimally invasive excision of deep lung nodules can be difficult partly because endoscopic staplers do not open wide enough. We describe a method in which a standard atraumatic straight clamp compresses the lung to allow placement of the stapler without difficulty.