Advances in Identification of Intersegmental Plane during Pulmonary Segmentectomy

Abstract

With the popularity of computed tomography (CT) scan in recent years, early stage lung cancer has been discovered in large numbers of patients and pulmonary segmentectomy has been widely used clinically. Identification of the intersegmental plane is one of the key steps in pulmonary segmentectomy, and current methods for identifying the intersegmental plane are numerous and have their own advantages and disadvantages. We will review relevant methods to help the clinical practice.

Keywords

• segmentectomy
• intersegmental plane
• identification