Computer tomography guided thoracoscopic resection of small pulmonary nodules in the hybrid theatre.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Thoracic surgeons are currently asked to resect smaller and deeper lesions which are difficult to detect thoracoscopically. The growing number of those lesions arises both from lung cancer screening programs and from follow-up of extrathoracic malignancies. This study analyzed the routine use of a CT-aided thoracoscopic approach to small pulmonary nodules in the hybrid theatre and the resulting changes in the treatment pathway.

Methods

50 patients were retrospectively included. The clinical indication for histological diagnosis was suspected metastasis in 46 patients. Technically, the radiological distance between the periphery of the lesion and the visceral pleura had to exceed the maximum diameter of the lesion for the patient to be included. A spiral wire was plac

SUBMITTER: Karampinis I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565725 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature