ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018
Video-assisted thoracic surgery for tiny pulmonary nodules with real-time image guidance in the hybrid theatre: the initial experience.
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- Precise localization techniques for small pulmonary nodules: what is next?Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Review
- A novel technique for localizing pulmonary nodules through percutaneous catheter puncture.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS): a single center experience and review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Review
- Thoracic surgery in Hong Kong.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Review
- Use of the hybrid room for thoracic surgery procedures: single-stage localization and removal of non-palpable nodules.Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2021Review
- Computer tomography guided thoracoscopic resection of small pulmonary nodules in the hybrid theatre.PloS one · 2021Article
- ARTIS PhenoJournal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- Comparison of CT-guided localization using hook wire or coil before thoracoscopic surgery for ground glass nodules.The British journal of radiology · 2020Article
- Uniportal VATS approach to sub-lobar anatomic resections: literature review and personal experience.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Review
- Image-assisted video assisted thoracic surgery (iVATS): an important tool in the armamentarium against lung cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with Artis Pheno for pulmonary nodule resection.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- Hybrid operating room-one stop for diagnosis, staging and treatment of early stage NSCLC.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- Devising the guidelines: the techniques of pulmonary nodule localization in uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery-hybrid operating room in the future.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Review
- Uniportal VATS Coil-Assisted Resections for GGOs.Journal of oncology · 2019Article
- Value of the Hybrid Operating Theater for an Integrated Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Nodules in 2019.Frontiers in surgery · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundLocalization of tiny lung nodules during video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) resection can be challenging. Real-time image-guided hookwire localization of the target lesions immediately followed by VATS lung resection in the hybrid operating theatre setting is an emerging approach.
methodsWe retrospectively reviewed our experience with this form of hybrid operating theatre image-guided VATS (iVATS) for lung nodules 1.5 cm or less, or soft in consistency. These patients were compared with matched cohort who received standard hookwire localization in the radiology department.
resultsFrom February 2014 to September 2017, lung nodules of indeterminate nature in 32 consecutive patients with mean size 9.1±4.6 mm underwent iVATS. All were accurately localized by hookwire and successfully resected. There was no postoperative mortality. There were 21 (66%) malignant lesions, all with adequate resection margins. Major outcomes were compared with a comparable cohort of 8 patients who received standard hookwire localization and VATS (sVATS) performed at separate departments operation suites. sVATS groups has significantly longer 'at-risk' period for pneumothorax progression and hookwire dislodgement (109.5±57.1 minutes for sVATS
conclusionsReal-time image-guided hookwire localization in the hybrid theatre setting is an effective facilitator of VATS resection of tiny lung nodules in selected patients, and may have added advantages in terms of safety and localization accuracy over the conventional sVATS method.
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