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Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for right lung cancer in a patient with right aortic arch: report of a case

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A 57-year-old man with an anomalous right aortic arch presented with cancer of the right lung. The right recurrent laryngeal nerve was found to be hooked around the right aortic arch. Right lower lobectomy with systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection was successfully performed using video-assisted thoracic surgery to provide close intraoperative attention to the branching of recurrent laryngeal nerve.

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  1. Department of Chest Surgery, Iizuka Hospital, 3-83,Yoshiomachi, Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8505, Japan

    Mantaro Kodate, Toshihiro Osaki & Kenji Ono

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Kodate, M., Osaki, T. & Ono, K. Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for right lung cancer in a patient with right aortic arch: report of a case. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 62, 128–130 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-013-0205-9

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