TY - JOUR
T1 - Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary nodules
T2 - Rationale for preoperative computed tomography-guided hookwire localization
AU - Ciriaco, Paola
AU - Negri, Giampiero
AU - Puglisi, Armando
AU - Nicoletti, Roberto
AU - Del Maschio, Alessandro
AU - Zannini, Piero
PY - 2004/3
Y1 - 2004/3
N2 - Objectives: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) provides a minimally invasive means to resect pulmonary nodules (PN). Deep localization of PN may jeopardize VATS lung resection. The aim of this study was to establish the utility of preoperative computed tomography (CT)-guided hookwire localization of PN. Methods: Between January 1993 and September 2001, we performed 151 VATS resections for PN. Preoperative CT-guided hookwire localization was not performed in 98 patients (group I); it was done just before surgery in 53 patients (group II) when, at CT scan, the distance of PN from the lung surface was >15 and/or when the size was 15 mm from the pleural surface. Even when PN are subpleural but
AB - Objectives: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) provides a minimally invasive means to resect pulmonary nodules (PN). Deep localization of PN may jeopardize VATS lung resection. The aim of this study was to establish the utility of preoperative computed tomography (CT)-guided hookwire localization of PN. Methods: Between January 1993 and September 2001, we performed 151 VATS resections for PN. Preoperative CT-guided hookwire localization was not performed in 98 patients (group I); it was done just before surgery in 53 patients (group II) when, at CT scan, the distance of PN from the lung surface was >15 and/or when the size was 15 mm from the pleural surface. Even when PN are subpleural but
KW - Hookwire
KW - Pulmonary nodules
KW - Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2003.11.036
DO - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2003.11.036
M3 - Article
C2 - 15019673
AN - SCOPUS:1542613939
VL - 25
SP - 429
EP - 433
JO - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
JF - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
SN - 1010-7940
IS - 3
ER -