Acute and Chronic Pain After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Lung Cancer

Patients were performed CT -guided hook wire localization(20G×120mm, PAJUNK medizintechnologie, Geisingen in Germany). patients were placed on a CT table in a suitable position(supine, prone, lateral) to obtain the shortest needle insertion route for their initial CT scan. Local anesthesia of the skin and planned puncture tract was performed using 10ml Lidocaine 1%. Next, the needle was inserted into or near the pulmonary nodule.