title: Utility of preoperative visualization for intrapulmonary sequestration in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
abstract: We herein report the case of a 59-year-old male suffering from severe cough. The patient had previously experienced several episodes of pneumonia beginning in childhood. A three dimensional multidetector computed tomography (3D-MDCT) scan revealed pulmonary sequestration with a left gastric artery blood supply, and clearly revealed the other pulmonary vessels. The patient underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, in which the anomalous tissue was resected safely. Preoperative visualization of the vessels may be helpful for the safe treatment of a pulmonary sequestration, and the VATS approach is a suitable operation under corrective surgical planning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Surgery, Kitakyushu Municipal Medical Center, 2-1-1 Basyaku, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu 802-0077, Japan.
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagashima
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authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chikaishi
authors.forename: Yoshinobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ichiki
authors.forename: Kimitaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyajima
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