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. 2014 Oct;6(Suppl 6):S604–S617. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.08.52

Figure 2.

Figure 2

The ‘classic’ 3-port VATS lobectomy. In a right-side operation, the ‘baseball diamond’ (dotted blue line) has a 10 cmm camera port at ‘home base’, a 3-5 cm utility port at ‘first base’, and a 10 mm posterior port at ‘third base’. The axis of the operation (red arrow) is a straight line from ‘home base’ through the ‘second base’—and in this classic early VATS approach the axis is essentially in a hip-to-head direction along the patient’s body’s longitudinal axis. VATS, video-assisted thoracic surgery.