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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Oct 2012
Case ReportsA video-assisted thoracic surgical lobectomy for a lung tumour with a rare anomalous pulmonary artery.
- Zhicheng He, Liang Chen, Quan Zhu, and Hai Xu.
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, The first affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2012 Oct 1; 15 (4): 786-7.
AbstractA detailed knowledge of anomalies of the anatomical course of the pulmonary vessels is extremely important for video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). Inadvertent vascular ligation and dissection are catastrophic for patients undergoing lobectomy. We describe a case with a rare anomaly of the left pulmonary artery and highlight the importance of identifying the courses of pulmonary vessels for VATS lobectomy.
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