Kawakita Naoya, Toba Hiroaki, Sakiyama Shoji, Sawada Toru, Yamamoto Yota, Nakagawa Yasushi, Takizawa Hiromitsu, Kenzaki Koichirou, Kondo Kazuya, Tangoku Akira
Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. 2010 Sep;63(10):915-8.
A 69-year-old man and a 53-year-old man with lung cancer of left upper lobe underwent pulmonary resection. A preoperative chest computed tomography (CT) scan showed the left superior and inferior pulmonary veins forming a common trunk. In the former case, the common trunk was misidentified as the superior pulmonary vein. The latter was recognized preoperatively by using 3-dimensional CT, and successfully performed left superior segmentectomy. This variation type is surgically important because of a potential risk of intraoperative bleeding and damage to pulmonary circulation during pulmonary resection.
