Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic combined segmentectomy for lung cancer with incomplete fissure

For patients with poor cardiopulmonary function, segmentectomy is a more reasonable surgical method, and it has been proved to be safe without compromising oncologic results for small cancers (1). Recently growing evidences show the feasibility and safety of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for lung cancer (2,3), but uniportal VATS segmentectomy is usually more technically difficult than lobectomy. With the gained experience, uniportal VATS segmentectomy for treating small pulmonary lesions can also be performed safely with acceptable morbidity and mortality (4,5), even for special segments (6). However, there are few reports about combined segmentectomy, here we share a video clip about uniportal VATS combined segmentectomy for treating a small lung cancer, not only to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of combined segmentectomy by uniportal approach, but also to evaluate the indication of combined segmentectomy to treat lung cancer in this case