Evaluation of Visceral Pleural Lumbar Lymphatic Drainage

Purpose Anatomic variations of the pulmonary arterial tree can cause technical difficulties during pulmonary lobectomy in general and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). Using CT angiography and 3D reconstruction, the investigators sought to identify anatomic variations of the pulmonary arterial tree and assess their respective frequencies. Methods the investigators retrospectively studied 88 pulmonary arterial trees in 44 patients having undergone VATS lobectomy for lung cancer over an 18-month period in Amiens University Hospital's Department of Thoracic Surgery. Each CT angiography with 3D reconstruction of the pulmonary arterial tree was performed by two experienced operators, according to a standardized procedure.

Inclusion criteria

• Any major patient aged 18 years and over who has undergone oncological lung lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer located in the thoracic surgery department of the University Hospital of Amiens.
• Nosologic criteria and related to acts: The pathology has already been diagnosed or suspected, and the surgical indication has been validated in the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Concertation Meeting according to national recommendations.
• These patients will be collected in a database already referenced in the register of the establishment of the University Hospital of Amiens under the reference DRCI T38

Exclusion criteria

• Criteria relating to the population:
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Pathology Criteria: Patient with no pulmonary neoplastic disease, patient with locally advanced or metastatic bronchopulmonary cancer
• Criteria relating to the acts: the criteria altering the surgical specimen and thus its anatomical study: patient having had an extemporaneous examination, patient with the antecedents of ipsilateral pulmonary surgery and / or need of decortication