Video-assisted thoracic surgery right upper lobectomy and lymph node dissection

We described a 55-year-old male smoking patient, who came to our institute with the diagnosis of a right upper lobe lesion. Computed tomographic (CT) guided biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma. The preoperative clinical diagnosis was clinical stage I primary lung adenocarcinoma. The standard three-port video-assisted thoracoscopy surgery (VATS) was performed in this case. After the resection of the right upper lobe, the 2^nd, 4^th, and 7^th groups of lymphatic nodes were removed by Harmonic scalpel. A closed drainage catheter was placed adjacent to the lateral chest wall through the port in the 7^th intercostal space. Postoperative pathologic diagnosis was T_2aN₀M₀ adenocarcinoma.