1 Introduction.- 2 The timing of the surgery.- 3 Technical considerations - "tips and tricks" and postoperative analgesia.- 4 patient position.- 5 the instrumentation.- 6 position of the trocars.- 7 vascular control-bleeding management.- 8 bronchial control - management of air leaks.- 9 Post-operative management-management of complications.- 10 Follow-up.- 11 Upper right lobectomy.- 12 Average lobectomy.- 13 Lower right lobectomy.- 14 Upper left lobectomy.- 15 Lower left lobectomy.- 16 segment definition.- 17 antegrade dissection and identification of vascular and bronchial structures.- 18 extra lobar sequestrectomy.- 19 intralobar sequestrectomy.