Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation in Children: Advantages of an Additional Trocar in the Lower Thorax for Pulmonary Lobectomy

• Main Authors: Hiroyuki Koga (Author), Takanori Ochi (Author), Shunki Hirayama (Author), Yukio Watanabe (Author), Hiroyasu Ueno (Author), Kota Imashimizu (Author), Kazuhiro Suzuki (Author), Ryohei Kuwatsuru (Author), Kinya Nishimura (Author), Geoffrey J. Lane (Author), Kenji Suzuki (Author), Atsuyuki Yamataka (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Aim: To present the use of an additional trocar (AT) in the lower thorax during thoracoscopic pulmonary lobectomy (TPL) in children with congenital pulmonary airway malformation.Methods: For a lower lobe TPL (LL), an AT is inserted in the 10th intercostal space (IS) in the posterior axillary line af...