“…We perused with great interest the article titled ‘Pulmonary vagus nerve transection for chronic cough after video-assisted lobectomy: a randomized controlled trial’ published in the esteemed International Journal of Surgery by Zhang et al . 1 . The esteemed authors conducted a randomized controlled trial involving 116 patients to investigate the potential of severing the pulmonary branch of the vagus nerve innervating the bronchial stump, as well as the caudal-most large pulmonary branch of the vagus nerve, during video-assisted lobectomy.…”