Video‐assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy in a patient with a displaced bronchus and vascular abnormalities

Abstract

Bronchial abnormalities are rare, and they are infrequently associated with pulmonary vascular abnormalities. It is important to identify such abnormal anatomical structures before lobectomy of the lung under thoracoscopy. There have been only three reports on video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy in patients with anomalous bronchi and vascular abnormalities to date. Here, we present a report of video-assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy per

Displaced bronchus and anomalous pulmonary vein passing dorsal to the pulmonary artery in a patient who underwent right upper lobectomy for lung cancer with lymph node metastases: a case report

“…Several studies have reported absence of the right SPV at the anterior hilum with an anomalous V1-V3 segment that passes between the PA and the bronchus [11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. To our knowledge, only eight studies have reported right upper lobe resection for lung cancer in patients with concomitant ectopic variation of the right SPV and RUB (Table 1) [11,12,14,[18][19][20][21][22].. The site of the right SPV and the RUB in our patient differed from sites observed in patients described by previous studies.…”

Right upper lobectomy for lung cancer with a displaced right bronchus: Two case reports

“…Cases of bronchial bifurcation are often accompanied by pulmonary artery bifurcation abnormalities and lobular insufficiency [ 4 , 5 ]; therefore, careful preoperative scrutiny is essential. In this case, bronchoscopy was performed preoperatively in both cases and bronchial branching abnormalities could, therefore, be determined accurately.…”