Hilum First-Fissure Last Biportal VATS Right Lower Lobectomy for Lung Cancer
This video presents the surgical technique to perform a video-assisted hilum first–fissure last right lower lobectomy with two-port approach in a seventy-five-year-old female nonsmoker. The patient was admitted with a diagnosis of a 32 mm right lower lobe adenocarcinoma. The preoperative chest CT scan displayed the presence of a partially incomplete fissure. The completeness of the interlobar fissure was graded 3, according to the Craig’s scale classification.
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