10.25373/ctsnet.5038904.v1
Trevor Upham
Trevor
Upham
Dilip Nath
Dilip
Nath
M. Blair Marshall
M. Blair
Marshall
3D Reconstruction for Atypical Resection of Growing Hamartoma
CTSNet
2017
Thoracic
VATS
Surgery
Health Care
2017-05-24 21:11:06
Media
https://ctsnet.figshare.com/articles/media/3D_Reconstruction_for_Atypical_Resection_of_Growing_Hamartoma/5038904
An asymptomatic patient was being followed for a central right upper lobe pulmonary nodule. After eight years, the nodule began to grow and a biopsy revealed it to be a benign hamartoma. Resection was recommended, but the hamartoma was not well suited for segmentectomy. Three dimensional reconstruction was used to develop a parenchymal-sparring procedure to resect the nodule without removing lung parenechyma.