title: Video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: single-direction thoracoscopic lobectomy.
abstract: A 68-year-old male patient was presented due to "cough for more than 1 year". PET/CT showed a mass, 23 mm in diameter, in the right lower lobe of the lung. The radioactivity uptake of the mediastinal lymph nodes was not increased. No metastasis to other organs was found. Preoperative evaluation showed that the patient could tolerate lobectomy. Single-direction video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy was then performed. The operation was smooth, and the mass was pathologically confirmed to be an adenocarcinoma in the lower right lung. The postoperative recovery was good, and the patient was discharged on the 7th post-operative day.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, China;
authors.forename: Xiao-Ming
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Chuang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: De-Yao
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Xie
keywords: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS); lobectomy; lung cancer