ArticleGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2021
Classifying the destination of right top pulmonary vein in 31 clinical cases.
Article in General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Thoracoscopic Right Lower Lobectomy With Right Top Pulmonary Vein: Safe Subcarinal Lymph Node Dissection.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2026Article
- Concealed right upper lobe pulmonary venous variants on 3D-CTBA: morphological characterization and surgical implications.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Efficacy of combined silk suture ligation and stapler versus stapler alone for vascular control in uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Right Lower Lobectomy for Lung Cancer With a Right Top Pulmonary Vein.Annals of thoracic surgery short reports · 2025Article
- Impact of Right Top Pulmonary Vein Location on Subcarinal Lymph Node Dissection in Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy: A Case Report and Literature Review.Surgical case reports · 2025Article
- Clinically important pulmonary vascular variations: a narrative review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Review
- An analysis of the left top pulmonary vein and comparison with the right top pulmonary vein for lung resection by three-dimensional CT angiography and thin-section images.Japanese journal of radiology · 2023Article
- Thoracoscopic esophagectomy with subcarinal lymph node dissection in the prone position for esophageal cancer with a right top pulmonary vein.Journal of surgical case reports · 2023Article
- Anatomy of the lung revisited by 3D-CT imaging.Video-assisted thoracic surgery · 2023Article
- Right top pulmonary vein is a venous anomaly of which surgeons should be aware in subcarinal dissection for thoracoscopic esophagectomy: a case report and literature review.World journal of surgical oncology · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Disruption in the flow of blood vessels is of great concern during thoracic surgery. Preoperative 3-dimensional computed tomography facilitates visualization of the exact location and course of blood vessels. The right posterior upper lobe segmental vein, known as the right top pulmonary vein (RTPV), is an anomalous vein beginning at the right upper lobe and running through the posterior surface of the intermediate bronchus. We clinically investigated 31 patients with RTPV who underwent lobectomy or total resection of the right lung in our hospital or related institutions. We classified the final destination of RTPV into four types. The RTPV flowed into the left atrium in 35.5% of cases, superior pulmonary vein in 9.7%, inferior pulmonary vein in 41.9%, and independently into V6 in 12.9%. An RTPV with a diameter ≥ 5 mm was considered a main drainage vein in S2. We should pay attention to the RTPV during right lung lobectomy.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.