Open AccessEffect of patient position during virtual-assisted lung mapping
Author(s) -
Masahiro Yanagiya,
Jun Matsumoto,
Hideyo Yamaguchi,
Jun Nakajima,
Masaaki Sato
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.60
Subject(s) - medicine , position (finance) , lung , economics , finance
Virtual-assisted lung mapping (VAL-MAP) is a preoperative multi-spot bronchoscopic dye-marking technique. Marking failure reportedly occurs in approximately 10% of marks. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the patient position during dye injection in VAL-MAP affected the quality of markings.