Abstract
Background: In the landscape of thoracic surgery, innovation continually drives progress, offering novel approaches to address complex pathologies while prioritizing patient well-being. Dual-port robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (DRATS) represents a new frontier in this evolution. In this report, we describe our experience with the fully dual-port robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (F-DRATS) approach for segmentectomy with the indocyanine green intersegmental plane identification. Methods: We define as F-DRATS the robotic thoracic surgery performed by two intercostal incisions without rib spreading, using the robotic camera, robotic dissecting instruments, and exclusively robotic staplers. We herein describe our F-DRATS approach in lingulectomy and lymphadenectomy of stations 5, 6, 7, and 10 using the da Vinci Surgical System. Results: The patient’s postoperative course was uneventful with the chest tube removed on the second postoperative day. The final pathological analysis confirmed a low-grade malignant potential adenocarcinoma, with a main diameter of 1.1 cm, at 3 cm from the lung margins. Conclusions: This is the first description in the literature of a F-DRATS lingulectomy with ICG intersegmental plane identification.
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