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    Lunch & Poster Display session (ID 58)

    • Event: ELCC 2019
    • Type: Poster Display session
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    • Presentations: 1
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    • Coordinates: 4/11/2019, 12:30 - 13:00, Hall 1
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      75P - Thoracic ultrasound can be a trustable tool in untouchable lung nodule surgery (ID 400)

      12:30 - 13:00  |  Presenting Author(s): Hongbin Zhang

      • Abstract

      Background

      Localization of ground-glass opacifications (GGOs) with more than 1cm distance to the pleura are still a challenge to thoracic surgeons during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Efficiency, damage avoidance, and safety are uppermost factors to be considered when choosing the location technique. Our center tested the thoracoscopic ultrasound (US) as a complementary method during VATS GGOs surgery.

      a9ded1e5ce5d75814730bb4caaf49419 Methods

      We evaluated 40 patients with GGOs divided into group A (VATS-US) and group B (VATS). We used positive pressure in the chest cavity during surgery in group A to decrease the time needed to collapse the lung. With the same excision standard between the two groups, we recorded and compared the time needed, ratio of converting to thoracotomy, blooding volume, and any complications observed.

      20c51b5f4e9aeb5334c90ff072e6f928 Results

      We found that the use of ultrasound during VATS surgery could improve the success rate of localization (p < 0.05), especially in patients where it was difficult to conduct preoperative CT guided localization (p < 0.01). There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in operation time, bleeding during the operation, or postoperative complications (p > 0.05).

      fd69c5cf902969e6fb71d043085ddee6 Conclusions

      We concluded that thoracoscopic ultrasound could be an excellent supplement to preoperative CT localizing technique for localization of GGOs, if not a replacement at present.

      b651e8a99c4375feb982b7c2cad376e9 Legal entity responsible for the study

      Hongbin Zhang.

      213f68309caaa4ccc14d5f99789640ad Funding

      Peking University International Hospital.

      682889d0a1d3b50267a69346a750433d Disclosure

      The author has declared no conflicts of interest.

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