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Lobectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery for a hilar bronchial carcinoid tumor
1Department of Surgery II, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 45-year-old man with bronchial carcinoid arising from the subsegmental middle-lobe bronchus was treated by video-assisted thoracic surgery. Lobectomy with mediastinal and hilar lymph node sampling was successfully performed in this patient. To obtain a tumor-free surgical margin on the middle-lobe bronchus, the interlobar pulmonary artery was retracted posteriorly, the middle-lobe bronchus anteriorly. The bronchus was then stapled and transected.