Okada, Morihito, Mimura, Takeshi, Ikegaki, Junichi, Katoh, Hiromi, Itoh, Harumi, and Tsubota, Noriaki
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.11.005 Byline: Morihito Okada (a), Takeshi Mimura (a), Junichi Ikegaki (b), Hiromi Katoh (b), Harumi Itoh (c), Noriaki Tsubota (a) Abbreviations: NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; VATS, video-assisted thoracic surgery Abstract: Segmentectomy is an anatomic parenchyma-sparing resection that is recently being performed for small-sized lung carcinoma and constitutes a useful procedure in a thoracic surgeon's armamentarium. We have generated a new technique that improves the identification of the intersegmental border and whose clinical utility we evaluate in this study. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hyogo Medical Center for Adults, Akashi City, Hyogo (b) Department of Anesthesiology, Hyogo Medical Center for Adults, Akashi City, Hyogo (c) Department of Radiology, Fukui Medical University, Yoshida, Fukui, Japan. Article History: Received 26 August 2006; Revised 22 October 2006; Accepted 2 November 2006 Article Note: (footnote) Informed consent was obtained from all the patients.