Prediction of and surgical strategy for adherent hilar lymph nodes in thoracoscopic surgery.
Yosuke MatsuuraJunji IchinoseMasayuki NakaoSakae OkumuraMingyon MunPublished in: Asian journal of endoscopic surgery (2019)
Adhesion of HLN to the pulmonary artery may be predicted to some extent by using preoperative CT scans. Our findings may contribute to improving the safety of thoracoscopic surgery.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary artery
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- lymph node
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- computed tomography
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- robot assisted
- surgical site infection
- dual energy
- image quality
- patients undergoing
- magnetic resonance imaging
- positron emission tomography
- early stage
- biofilm formation
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- acute coronary syndrome
- atrial fibrillation
- sentinel lymph node
- candida albicans