Unveiling the beneficial techniques in lung segmentectomy by using a stapler tractor for vascular dissection based on surgical video replay.

ABSTRACT: The Thoracic Training Course of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in China is dedicated to training skilled thoracic surgeons to an elite level. Almost all the learners at the Nanjing training station showed great interest in a novel stapler tractor designed for dissociating segmental vessels during lung segmentectomy. This study aimed to unveil the beneficial of the novel stapler tractor. Three hundred twenty-three patients who underwent lung segmentectomy at the Nanjing training station were retrospectively analyzed. First, surgical outcomes were compared between those who used a stapler tractor for dissociating segmental vessels and those who did not. Secondly, the results of dissociating segmental vessels were compared between the group that used the stapler tractor and the ot

SUBMITTER: Xia Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12491449 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature