Combined use of the Da Vinci robot system and the LungPoint Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation system in the management of lung cancer: First Hong Kong experience

Abstract

Small ground-glass opacity intrapulmonary lesions without preoperative histological diagnosis are difficult to localise in minimal invasive thoracic surgery, especially in robotic-assisted surgery which has limited haptic feedback. Here we present two cases of using the LungPoint Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation system for indocyanine green injection to assist with localization during robotic thoracic surgery, which might be a safe and feasible technique for such cases with impalpable lesions with no prior histological proof.