This video demonstrates the technique of an open right lower sleeve lobectomy. The patient is a thirty-four-year-old male diagnosed with a typical carcinoid involving the right lower lobe bronchus. For this surgery, a right posterolateral...
Surgical resection is curative for carcinoid tumors of the airway (1). Parenchymal preserving techniques such as bronchoplasty and sleeve resections have been shown to have equivalent oncological outcomes when compared...