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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Letter to the Editor

An unexpected complication of videothoracoscopic lobectomy: late RIMA bleeding

Burcu Ancın
1
,
Serkan Uysal
2
,
Erkan Dikmen
2
,
Rıza Doğan
2

1.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Burdur State Hospital, Burdur, Turkey
2.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hacettepe University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2022; 19 (1): 52-53
Online publish date: 2022/03/24
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Videothoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy, a minimally invasive technique, has been performed for approximately 20 years [1]. The advantages include improved patient satisfaction due to less surgical trauma, less postoperative pain, faster recovery, and less invasiveness compared to open surgical techniques [2]. Endoscopic vascular and parenchymal staplers are widely used for video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and are mostly considered a safe technique [3].

In our case report, a patient, who underwent uniportal VATS lobectomy for lung adenocarcinoma and who was reoperated on due to the development of massive right internal mammary artery bleeding due to the intraoperative use of stapling, is presented.
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