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Fig. 2 | Surgical Case Reports

Fig. 2

From: Bilateral segmentectomies using virtual-assisted lung mapping (VAL-MAP) for metastatic lung tumors

Fig. 2

a Three-dimensional configuration of the CT for “mapping” for the first operation. b A thoracoscopic view corresponding to the yellow square in a. The “standing stitch” with blue suture (white arrows) near a marking spot indicates the resection line between S8 and S9 and a silk stitch just above the nodule in right S8a. The geometric information of ideal resection line was obtained from marking spots and blue sutures were placed along the resection lines

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