We report one of the rare anatomical variations of the pulmonary vein wherein the left V2 drained into the inferior pulmonary vein. A 63-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of an abnormal shadow in the left lower lung field that was noted on chest X-ray. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a tumor in the left lower lobe. A biopsied tumor specimen was diagnosed as an adenocarcinoma, ...

Objective To describe the surgical procedures of laparoscopic caudate lobectomy and analyze its clinical efficiency for treating cancer. Methods Twelve consecutive patients of hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatic hemangioma, and focal nodular hyperplasia who received laparoscopic caudate lobectomy in Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from January 2013 to January 2017 were included in this stu...

This study aimed to compare outcomes following video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy (VATS) versus open lobectomy for clinical stage I non small cell lung cancer at a China center. Eighty-one consecutive patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy from January 2007 to December 2013 were compared with 94 patients undergoing open surgery during the same time period. Patients we...

a case of right hepatic lobectomy for massive cavernous hemangioma is presented. symptomatology and also operative technic are described. postoperatively the patient developed fever due to a bile stained right purulent pleural effusion which cleared up with few aspiration - punctures and local injection of antibiotics. hepatic function tests carried out 7 months after the operation were identic...

Two male patients were admitted with right upper lobe tumor. In both cases, standard upper lobectomy or sleeve lobectomy was not applicable because of the invasion of lateral wall of the lower trachea. The standard surgical option was tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy. Avoidance of pneumonectomy could be achieved by Nohl-Oser tracheobronchoplasty. Both patients had smooth postoperative course. We p...

A total of 42 patients were submitted to a clinical, behavioural and neuropsychological evaluation with the objective of eventual surgical treatment of epilepsy refractory to the usual clinical therapies. Prolonged video-EEG monitoring, MRI hippocampal volume measurement, lateralization of speech and memory using the amobarbital (Wada) test were used. Of 18 operated cases, 12 were submitted to ...

p s l w Background. The objective of the present study was to ssess whether placing chest tubes on water seal after ulmonary lobectomy reduced the duration of air leak ompared with suction. Methods. One hundred forty-five patients who underent pulmonary lobectomy for lung cancer and with n air leak on the first postoperative day were prospecively randomly assigned to two groups: in group 1 (72 ...

S could be the procedure of choice for preserving lung function in patients with peripheral stage IA non–small cell lung cancer if indeed it can provide the same rate of disease-free survival as lobectomy. A randomized trial currently underway should help to address some of the surgical community’s concerns about the size and conduct of the previous randomized trial that made lobectomy the surg...