Watanabe Atsushi, Ohsawa Hisayoshi, Obama Takuro, Mawatari Tohru, Abe Tomio
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan.
Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2005 Feb;11(1):38-40.
We present an unusual case of a patient with a right pulmonary interlobar node metastasis from renal cell carcinoma following nephrectomy. She underwent interlobar node dissection (ND) by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Interlobar ND without lobectomy by VATS has not been reported until now in English literature. The retraction of the right intermediate bronchus is a useful technique during this procedure.
