Computed tomography-guided simultaneous coil localization as a bridge to one-stage surgery for multiple lung nodules: a retrospective study

Table 3 Details of the VATS procedure of the 19 patients

No.	Nodules location	Nature	Surgical type	Duration of one-stage VATS (min)	Blood loss (ml)	Pathological results
1	RU/RL/RL	GGO/Solid/Solid	Wedge/Wedge/Wedge	170	100	Benign/Benign/Benign
2	LL/RM/RL	GGO/mGGO/mGGO	Wedge/Wedge/Wedge	180	100	Benign/Benign/Benign
3	RU /RM	Solid/Solid	Wedge/Wedge	205	100	PC/PC
4	RU /RL	GGO/GGO	Wedge/Wedge	60	50	AIS/PC
5	RU /LU	GGO/GGO	Wedge/Wedge	90	50	PC/PC
6	RU /RL	mGGO/mGGO	Wedge+ lobectomy/Wedge	230	50	IA/MIA
7	LL/RU	Solid/GGO	Wedge/Wedge	130	100	Benign/PC
8	RM/RL	GGO/GGO	Wedge/Wedge	70	50	PC/PC
9	LL/ LL	GGO/GGO	Wedge/Wedge^a	360	200	AIS/AIS
10	RL/RU	Solid /mGGO	Wedge/Wedge	145	100	Benign/PC
11	LL/RM	Solid/Solid	Wedge/Wedge	200	200	Benign/Benign
12	RL/RM	GGO/Solid	Wedge/Wedge^a	195	100	Benign/MIA
13	RU/RU/RU	GGO/GGO/GGO	Wedge/Wedge/Wedge^a	310	200	Benign/PC/MIA
14	LU/ LL	GGO/GGO	Wedge/Wedge	80	10	AIS/PC
15	LU/ LU	GGO/Solid	Wedge/Wedge	100	50	AIS/Metastasis
16	LL/LU	Solid/Solid	Wedge/Wedge^b	165	150	Benign/PC
17	LU/ LL	GGO/Solid	Wedge/Wedge	80	60	AIS/IA
18	LU/ LL	Solid/Solid	Wedge/Wedge	270	20	Benign/Benign
19	RL/RL/RM/RU	GGO/GGO/GGO/mGGO	Wedge/Wedge/Wedge/Wedge	225	100	AIS/AIS/Benign/AIS

VATS video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, RU right upper, RM right middle, RL right lower, LU left upper, LL left lower, GGO ground-glass opacity, mGGO mixed GGO, PC precancerosis, AIS adenocarcinoma in situ, MIA minimally invasive adenocarcinoma, IA invasive adenocarcinoma. ^a: These patients had synchronous definite diagnosed lung cancer and they underwent lobectomy and wedge resection during a single-stage VATS procedure. ^b: This wedge resection was performed based on the palpation of the coil

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