Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Online ISSN : 2186-1005
Print ISSN : 1341-1098
ISSN-L : 1341-1098

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Simultaneous Stapling of Pulmonary Vein and Bronchus in Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Lobectomy
Guangliang QiangJun Nakajima
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Article ID: cr.14-00072

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We present the case of a 66-year-old female who had undergone pulmonary wedge resection for diagnosis and followed by a radical lobectomy for the treatment of the primary lung cancer. We performed a left upper lobectomy through Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS), we successfully adapted simultaneous stapling technique to division of both pulmonary vein and lobar bronchus which were densely adhered each other because of the previous surgery.
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