Download PDF
Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; 61(02): 151-153
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1311536
How to Do It
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Thoracoscopic Lung Segmentectomy Simulated by a Tailor-Made Virtual Lung: Computed Bronchography and Angiography

Tadashi Akiba
1   Department of Surgery, Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
,
Toshiaki Morikawa
1   Department of Surgery, Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
,
Takao Ohki
1   Department of Surgery, Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
› Author Affiliations
Further Information

Publication History

02 November 2011

13 February 2012

Publication Date:
20 December 2012 (online)

    Permissions and Reprints All articles of this category

Abstract

We describe the benefits of simulating an anatomical lung segmentectomy using multidetector computed tomography bronchography and angiography (tailor-made virtual lung). Preoperative determination of the anatomical intersegmental plane is possible by visualizing the segmental bronchi and pulmonary vein branches. This advanced technique could be useful during thoracoscopic anatomical segmentectomy for lung cancer.

Keywords

thoracoscopy/VATS - lung cancer treatment (surgery medical) - computed tomography - CT scan - pulmonary arteries/veins
 

  • References

  • 1 Leshnower BG, Miller DL, Fernandez FG, Pickens A, Force SD. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery segmentectomy: a safe and effective procedure. Ann Thorac Surg 2010; 89 (5) 1571-1576
    CrossrefPubMedSearch in Google Scholar
  • 2 Oizumi H, Endoh M, Takeda S, Suzuki J, Fukaya K, Sadahiro M. Anatomical lung segmentectomy simulated by computed tomographic angiography. Ann Thorac Surg 2010; 90 (4) 1382-1383
    CrossrefPubMedSearch in Google Scholar
  • 3 Akiba T, Marushima H, Harada J, Kobayashi S, Morikawa T. Importance of preoperative imaging with 64-row three-dimensional multidetector computed tomography for safer video-assisted thoracic surgery in lung cancer. Surg Today 2009; 39 (10) 844-847
    CrossrefPubMedSearch in Google Scholar
  • 4 Akiba T. Tailor-made virtual lung: prevailing clinical application. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009; 57 (7) 335-337
    CrossrefPubMedSearch in Google Scholar
  • 5 Swanson SJ. Video-assisted thoracic surgery segmentectomy: the future of surgery for lung cancer?. Ann Thorac Surg 2010; 89 (6) S2096-S2097
    CrossrefPubMedSearch in Google Scholar