Total port-access robot-assisted pulmonary lobectomy without utility thoracotomy.
Robot-assisted lobectomy has been reported elsewhere as a feasible technique for lobectomy. We report a modification of the previously reported technique using a complete port-access approach without utility thoracotomy.
Ninan
Mathew
M
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 901 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, Memphis, TN 38163, USA. mninan@utmem.edu
Dylewski
Mark R
MR
D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D013908:Thoracotomy