%0 Journal Article %T Anatomical variations and pitfalls to know during thoracoscopic segmentectomies %A Gossot, Dominique %A Seguin-Givelet, Agathe %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2017 %B 2017 %9 %! Anatomical variations and pitfalls to know during thoracoscopic segmentectomies %K %X The rate of sublobar resection (SLR) for early-stage non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is increasing, mainly because of a growing rate of early-stage lung carcinomas and ground-glass opacities. More and more SLRs are now performed by a thoracoscopic, a video-assisted or a robotically-assisted approach. Although surgeons are performing pulmonary segmentectomies for years, they need a better understanding of anatomy when using a closed chest approach, because vision is more limited and they cannot stretch and expose the parenchyma and broncho-vascular elements. In this article, we will describe most of the significant anatomical variations we have encountered during a consecutive series of 390 full thoracoscopic segmentectomies, either at surgery or preoperatively by studying the 3-dimensional (3D) modelisation. %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/17792 %P S1134-S1144 %@ 2077-6624