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