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We present the main anatomical landmarks and operative steps to perform a pulmonary right posterior segmentectomy (S2) through a VATS approach. Tips and tricks and anatomical variations are exposed, as well as a final video-summary with the whole procedure.
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Figueroa, S. et al. (2023). Right Posterior Segmentectomy (S2). In: Galvez, C., Bolufer, S., Figueroa, S., Obeso, A. (eds) Video-Atlas of VATS Pulmonary Sublobar Resections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14455-4_9
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