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Vascular Navigation
Dicky Soehardiman
Interventional Pulmonology and Respiratory Care Division
Respiratory Medicine Department
University of Indonesia/Persahabatan Hospital
Jakarta
Relations:
Airways - Lymphnodes - Vessels
• Anatomic knowledge:
– facilitate to localize lympnode and lesion
– avoid inadvertent access to vascular
structure
Front cross section of tracheobronchial tree
(anterior view)
AORTA
V. Azygos
AORTA
V. Azygos
Ant-left 1/3 distal trachea
Ant-right 1/3 distal trachea
Above the aortic arch
Ant-right 1/3 distal trachea
Ant-left 1/3 distal trachea
Superior vena cava
AORTA
AORTA
V. Azygos
AORT
A Right pulmonary artery
Right main bronchus
4R
11R 7
12R ?
12L ?
Lymphnode 4R Station
Lymphnode 4R Station
• 1 or 2 tracheal rings
above the main
Carina
• Before the bifurcation
on the right
posterolateral aspect
Lymphnode 7 Station
Lymphnode 7 Station
• 3-5 cm below on
either side of the main
Carina
• Lateral to
inferomedial entry
Lymphnode 11R Station
Lymphnode 11R Station
• Right second Carina:
right upper lobe
bifurcate from
bronchus intermedius
• Left second Carina:
left upper lobe
bifurcates from the
left main bronchus
Lymphnode 12R Station ?
Lymphnode 5 or 6 Station?
Lymphnode 5 or 6 Station?
• Difficult
• Anchored at lateral
tracheal wall of distal
trachea
• At the level of Carina
• Subsequent downward
or inferior movement of
the entire bronchoscopy
• Facilitate the needle
laterally
Lymphnode 11L Station?
Yurigaoka, September 22, 2010
Flexible Bronchoscopy
Ko Pen Wang
Atul Mehta
J Francis Turner
Baltimore: Blackwell Publishing; 2004