So VATs is video assisted thoracic surgery — in this case 2 small Holes for camera and irrigation and 1 for surgical instruments. The wedge just means they cut a pie shaped piece of lung instead of the entire lobe. But to do that It would require their willingness to wait a hot minute for pathology to examine margins and lymph nodes (as well as nodule) before proceeding instead of proceeding to remove the entire lobe after learning the nodule itself was malignant. I didn’t get pathology report on margins and lymph nodes for 10 days. I’ve been very disappointed in that.