[Lung cancer in patient with a common trunk of left pulmonary veins; report of two cases].
A 69-year-old man and a 53-year-old man with lung cancer of left upper lobe underwent pulmonary resection. A preoperative chest computed tomography (CT) scan showed the left superior and inferior pulmonary veins forming a common trunk. In the former case, the common trunk was misidentified as the superior pulmonary vein. The latter was recognized preoperatively by using 3-dimensional CT, and successfully performed left superior segmentectomy. This variation type is surgically important because of a potential risk of intraoperative bleeding and damage to pulmonary circulation during pulmonary resection.
Kawakita
Naoya
N
Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan.
Toba
Hiroaki
H
Sakiyama
Shoji
S
Sawada
Toru
T
Yamamoto
Yota
Y
Nakagawa
Yasushi
Y
Takizawa
Hiromitsu
H
Kenzaki
Koichirou
K
Kondo
Kazuya
K
Tangoku
Akira
A
D000368:Aged; D018376:Cardiovascular Abnormalities / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed