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From: Ventilation failure after lateral jackknife positioning for robot-assisted lung cancer surgery in a patient after lingula-sparing left upper lobectomy

Fig. 1

Chest X-rays before the previous lingula-sparing left upper lobectomy (a) and before the current robot-assisted right upper lobectomy (b). An outline and a centerline of the trachea and the left main bronchus are delineated with white and black lines, respectively, on each chest X-ray. The distance from the trachea to the angulation point is 3.4 cm. Note that compared with the chest X-ray a, the chest X-ray b exhibits mild angulation of the left main bronchus, indicated by a combination of the 127° T-MB angle and the 132° PL-DL angle, which does not meet the criteria for remarkable bronchial angulation, defined by a combination of a wide T-MB angle (> 140°) and a narrow PL-DL angle (< 100°) [6]. T-MB angle, angle formed by the trachea and left main bronchus; PL-DL angle, angle formed by the proximal and distal portions of the left main bronchus

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