title: Lobectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery for a hilar bronchial carcinoid tumor.
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 To obtain a tumor-free surgical margin on the middle-lobe bronchus, the interlobar pulmonary artery was retracted posteriorly, the middle-lobe bronchus anteriorly.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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery II, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Deguchi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tsumatori
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014741:Video Recording