Duet TRS Used in Pulmonary Resections

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patient must be 18 years of age or older
• The patient must be scheduled to undergo segmentectomy or lobectomy via Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) for a lung nodule suspicious for or clinically proven to be primary lung cancer
• The patient must be able to tolerate general anesthesia and have cardiopulmonary reserve to tolerate the procedure
• The patient must be willing and able to comply with all study requirements and have understood and signed the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The patient is pregnant or breastfeeding
• The patient is scheduled to undergo sleeve lobectomy, wedge resection, bi-lobectomy, pneumonectomy or Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS), or lung biopsy for suspected interstitial lung disease
• The patient has received pre-operative chemotherapy or radiation therapy for the lung cancer that will be resected
• The patient is scheduled to receive intra-operative brachytherapy
• The patient has other severe illnesses that would preclude surgery such as unstable angina or myocardial infarction within 3 months
• Re-operative surgery is excluded if it is on the same side as the previous surgery
• The patient requires chest wall reconstruction