Robotic-assisted right inferior lobectomy

The patient, a 60-year-old man, was admitted due to “cough and expectoration lasted for 1 month and became worse in the past 2 weeks”. One month ago, the patient developed a cough productive for white sputum but without signs/ symptoms such as blood in phlegm, difficulty in breathing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, fatigue, or night sweats. After oral administration with roxithromycin and cold drugs by himself, the symptoms were resolved, and no other special treatment was applied. In the past 2 weeks, the cough persisted and became worse. He then visited a local hospital, in which the chest CT showed a lobulated soft-tissue mass sized 3.5 cm in the inferior lobe of right lung. He had a history of hypertension for 9 years, which was satisfactorily controlled by the self-administration of hypotensive drugs. In 2004 and 2007, he received two sessions of heart stent implantation due to myocardial infarction, during which a total of 3 stents were implanted. However, he has stopped using anticoagulant drugs.