Computed Tomography Guided Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy for Lung Cancer with Variant Bronchus

Tadashi Akiba; Toshiaki Morikawa; Hideki Marushima; Takeo Nakada; Takuya Inagaki; Takao Ohki

doi:10.5761/atcs.cr.12.02042

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Computed Tomography Guided Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy for Lung Cancer with Variant Bronchus

Tadashi Akiba, Toshiaki Morikawa, Hideki Marushima, Takeo Nakada, Takuya Inagaki, Takao Ohki

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Keywords: computer applications, bronchial disease, lung cancer surgery, thoracoscopy/VATS

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS Advance online publication

Article ID: cr.12.02042

DOI https://doi.org/10.5761/atcs.cr.12.02042

The final version of this article is now available: Vol. 20 (2014), No. 5 pp. 407-409

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Abstract

Lung segmentectomy with bronchial variation has rarely been reported. We report the case of a lung cancer patient with variant anatomy of the right upper lobe bronchus.Thoracoscopic posterior segmentectomy of the right upper lobe was performed. Variant bronchus and related blood vessels were confirmed preoperatively by three-dimensional multidetector computed tomography (3D-MDCT), which facilitated visualization of the patient's anatomy during surgery.

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