Single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy with pulmonary artery reconstruction.
Despite the advances in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), vascular reconstruction of the pulmonary artery (PA) is still infrequently performed by thoracic surgeons because of the technical difficulties and the increased operative risk during thoracoscopy. The few published reports have been performed by using 3-4 incisions. We present the first report of a pulmonary artery reconstruction procedure performed by a single-incision VATS technique. A 73-year old male patient was operated on by the thoracoscopic approach through a single 4-cm incision with no rib spreading. The postoperative recovery was uneventful.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain.
Diego
D
Gonzalez-Rivas
Maria
M
Delgado
Eva
E
Fieira
Lucia
L
Mendez
D000368:Aged; D018287:Carcinoma, Large Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures
Minimally invasive surgery; Pulmonary artery reconstruction; Surgery/incisions/technique; Thoracoscopy/video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; Vascular reconstruction; Vasculoplasty