Lung salvage by pulmonary arterioplasty after vascular injury during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical right upper lobectomy.

Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgical (VATS) lobectomy is now considered feasible and safe. Nevertheless, thoracic surgeons need to be aware of dramatic complications that may occur during this procedure and how best to manage them. We report the case of a severe tear of the right pulmonary artery (PA) during elective VATS upper lobectomy, leading to emergency conversion to control the bleeding.

Electron dosimetry with thermally stimulated exoelectron emission (TSEE).

The dependence of exoelectron emission from BeO and Al2O3 on primary electron energy has been measured over the 200 keV to 1.2 MeV range. Two types of measurements are made, firstly with the isotopes 90Sr + 90Y, 147Pm, 204Tl, and secondly for BeO with monoenergetic electrons from an accelerator.