Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (UVATS) right lower lobectomy for a giant T4 squamous cell lung tumour.

ABSTRACT: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is one of the unique methods that have revolutionized the discipline of minimally-invasive thoracic surgery in the last two decades. Previously, double-port VATS lobectomy has been used for the resection of T4 tumours. This current case report presents a 68-year-old male that presented with a productive cough of 3 months' duration, associated with fever, chest pain and loss of body weight. He was haemodynamically stable. The patient underwent surgery under general anaesthesia using a uniportal VATS (UVATS) approach. A 2-cm incision was made in the mid-axillary line through the right 5th intercostal space with no rib spreading. The tumour was put into a specimen bag, cut into pieces and then removed via the mouth of the bag using a grasper. After

SUBMITTER: Essa RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9087254 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature