PMID: 11899198Mar 20, 2002Paper

A prospective trial of systematic nodal dissection for lung cancer by video-assisted thoracic surgery: can it be perfect?

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
M SagawaT Kondo

Abstract

There have been no reports evaluating the completeness of systematic nodal dissection with video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). In order to elucidate the completeness of the dissection, we have conducted a prospective trial with patients having primary lung cancer. Patients with clinical stage I lung cancer were the candidates for this study. Thoracotomy was performed with a small skin incision of 7 cm to 8 cm in length. Through these small wounds and two trocars, pulmonary resection was performed and then hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes were dissected. After that, a standard thoracotomy was carried out by another surgeon to complete systematic nodal dissection. Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy with lymph node dissection was accomplished in 17 right lung cancer patients and 12 left lung cancer patients. On the right side, the average numbers of resected lymph nodes by VATS and remnant lymph nodes were 40.3 and 1.2, respectively. The average weights of dissected tissues by VATS and remnant tissues were 10.0 g and 0.2 g, respectively. On the left side, there were 37.1 and 1.2 lymph nodes and 8.3 g and 0.2 g of weight of dissected tissues. No nodal involvement was observed in the remnant lymph nodes. The lymph node d...Continue Reading

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