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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;66:1799-1800
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

Anatomy of inferior pulmonary vein should be clarified in lower lobectomy

Satoru Sugimoto, MDa, Osamu Izumiyama, MDa, Akio Yamashita, MDa, Masahito Baba, MDa, Tadashi Hasegawa, MDa

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hakodate Municipal Hospital, Hakodate, Japan

Accepted for publication May 13, 1998.

Address reprint requests to Dr Sugimoto, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hakodate Municipal Hospital, Yayoicho 2–33, Hakodate, 040 Japan

We successfully performed surgery for carcinoma of the lung on 2 patients with the anatomic variation of the middle lobe vein draining to the right inferior pulmonary vein. This variation is surgically important because division of the right inferior pulmonary vein may result in blockage of middle lobe vein drainage in right lower lobectomy. Surgeons must always pay attention to this variation when performing the right lower lobectomy.




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