• Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area Command, Shenyang 110016, P. R. China;
XUShi-guang, Email: oldmonitor73@163.com
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Objective To summarize our initial experience in robot-assisted left upper lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer. Methods Four patients with non-small cell lung cancer underwent robot-assisted left upper lobectomy with da Vinci S surgical system (Intuitive Surgical, California) in General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area Command between March and August 2013. There were 3 male and 1 female patients, and their age was 58.8 years (range:49-67 years). We used general anesthesia with double lumens trachea cannula. The patients set in right lateral decubitus position with jackknife. We used 3 arms of the robot system. A single direction lobectomy procedure or an anatomic lobectomy procedure was used according to the differentiation of fissure. Systemic lymph node dissection was performed for all patients. Results Four patients with left upper lobectomy were completed with total robotic procedure without conversion. Postoperative pathological examination showed all the patients were of all adenocarcinoma with 2 patients inⅠA stage and 2 patients inⅢA stage. The range of operating time was 100-150 min, intraoperative blood loss was 30-80 ml and no blood transfusion was needed for the patients. The drainage time was 6-20 days. All of the 4 patients were discharged smoothly. The patients were followed up for 10-15 months without recurrence or metastasis. Conclusion Robot-assisted left upper lobectomy is safe and feasible for non-small cell lung cancer.

Citation: WANGShu-min, TONGXiang-dong, LIUBo, LIBo, XUWei, LIUXing-chi, WANGTong, QUJia-qi, XUShi-guang. Robot-assisted Left Upper Lobectomy and Lymph Node Dissection for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2015, 22(3): 215-219. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.20150061 Copy

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