Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy

BACKGROUND: There are several anatomical variations of the pulmonary vein which can cause serious complications in pulmonary lobectomy. CASE PRESENTATION: We inadvertently divided the left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy in a lung cancer patient. Retrospective revie...

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Autores principales: Seok, Yangki, Lee, Eungbae
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27387410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0469-0
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description BACKGROUND: There are several anatomical variations of the pulmonary vein which can cause serious complications in pulmonary lobectomy. CASE PRESENTATION: We inadvertently divided the left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy in a lung cancer patient. Retrospective review of the preoperative computed tomography showed extra-pericardial common trunk of the left pulmonary venous system. Left superior pulmonary vein was reimplanted into stump of divided common trunk via thoracotomy. CONCLUSIONS: Awareness of vascular anomalies will help thoracic surgeons to prevent potential morbidity and mortality from complications.
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spelling pubmed-49375282016-07-09 Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy Seok, Yangki Lee, Eungbae J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: There are several anatomical variations of the pulmonary vein which can cause serious complications in pulmonary lobectomy. CASE PRESENTATION: We inadvertently divided the left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy in a lung cancer patient. Retrospective review of the preoperative computed tomography showed extra-pericardial common trunk of the left pulmonary venous system. Left superior pulmonary vein was reimplanted into stump of divided common trunk via thoracotomy. CONCLUSIONS: Awareness of vascular anomalies will help thoracic surgeons to prevent potential morbidity and mortality from complications. BioMed Central 2016-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4937528/ /pubmed/27387410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0469-0 Text en © Seok and Lee. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy
title Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy
title_full Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy
title_fullStr Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy
title_full_unstemmed Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy
title_short Inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy
title_sort inadvertently transected left superior pulmonary vein during thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27387410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0469-0
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