Video-assisted thoracoscopic left upper lobe apical trisegmentectomy with the Harmonic scalpel

Jun Peng; Xin-Long Chen; Xin Mao; Hui-Ping Wang; Jun Liu; Xian-Gu Ning

doi:10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.11.40

Video-assisted thoracoscopic left upper lobe apical trisegmentectomy with the Harmonic scalpel

J Thorac Dis. 2014 Dec;6(12):1822-5. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.11.40.

Authors

Jun Peng¹, Xin-Long Chen¹, Xin Mao¹, Hui-Ping Wang¹, Jun Liu¹, Xian-Gu Ning¹

Affiliation

¹ 1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650032, China ; 2 Children's Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650034, China.

PMID: 25589981
PMCID: PMC4283342
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.11.40

Abstract

Segmental resection is a useful procedure to preserve respiratory function. A 56-year-old woman presented with a finding of a left upper lobe lesion on CT scanning. She was performed video-assisted thoracoscopic left upper lobe apical trisegmentectomy with the Harmonic scalpel. Video-assisted thoracoscopy surgery (VATS) segmentectomy is associated with safe and feasible procedure. With the Harmonic scalpel dissection, blood loss is minimal and this speeds patient recovery.

Keywords: Harmonic scalpel; Video-assisted thoracoscopy surgery (VATS); segmentectomy.