Friday, January 14, 2011

Resecting a piece of lung

Today we did a thorascopic wedge resection of a metastatic sarcoma. The patient's left lung was intubated. Her right lung was collapsed. She was laid on her side so that we had access to the right chest. We made a small incision 8 rib spaces from below the costal margin in the mid axillary line. We entered the chest. We then made another incision

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