At present, minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery has become the mainstream, and thoracotomy surgery is rarely used due to the large trauma. The meaning of thoracoscopy is to make a few small holes in the patient's chest wall, and use special instruments and thoracoscope equipment to project the entire patient's chest condition onto a high-definition surgical screen. The surgeon looks at the screen with his eyes and hands. She was carrying special instruments because she was afraid of having pulmonary nodules, but she also wanted surgery. However, it is not clear whether surgery for pulmonary nodules is a major surgery and whether it will have any impact on future life. The operation is performed through a small operation path on the patient's chest wall. This operation is currently very common in the thoracic surgery community and is technically mature.

Since the lungs are non-renewable organs, if one part is cut off, the other part will be lost. Many people are worried about whether the surgical removal of pulmonary nodules will have any impact on their daily life. Generally speaking, the impact on the life of most patients after surgery is very small, especially for some young and middle-aged people, who can go to work and study normally one month after the surgery and their daily life is not affected at all. For older patients, it depends on the compensatory capacity of the remaining lung tissue and subsequent exercise, so gradual lung function exercise after surgery is very important. Cycling, swimming, brisk walking, and jogging are all good aerobic exercise methods, especially those who have suffered from long-term illness. People who smoke, have some underlying diseases, have poor cardiopulmonary function, or have had a history of lung surgery

There is still lung tissue where the original lung lobes were removed. This is because the remaining lungs will compensate for the resection. The space used to expand the resected lung will be partially occupied by the expanded remaining lung, and other space will be eliminated by upward movement of the diaphragm, chest wall collapse, and mediastinal shift. An adult who undergoes lobectomy for more than half a year can basically recover more than 80% of his preoperative activity tolerance. It is understandable that my friends feel this way, because after all, it is a foreign body growing in the body, and they are also afraid of the mysterious operating room. Patients with segmental and wedge resections have less impact on lung function. Therefore, the impact on life after lung nodule surgery is very small. Some patients may experience varying degrees of coughing and wound tingling within six months after surgery.