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Case Reports

Thoracoscopic Approach for the Treatment of Postpneumonectomy Syndrome

^a Department of Surgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
^b Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Accepted for publication February 9, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Ng, 2 Dudley St, Ste 470, Providence, RI 02905 (Email: tng{at}usasurg.org).

Presented at the Surgical Motion Picture session of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, Jan 26–28, 2009.

Postpneumonectomy syndrome develops after pneumonectomy when excessive mediastinal shifting leads to compression of the contralateral main bronchus. This case report describes a total thoracoscopic approach for the treatment of postpneumonectomy syndrome.