Does video-mediastinoscopy improve the results of conventional mediastinoscopy?☆

Adverse events of NOTES mediastinoscopy compared to conventional video-assisted mediastinoscopy: a randomized survival study in a porcine model

BACKGROUND Safety is a concern in natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) mediastinoscopy. The objective of this study was to compare the safety of NOTES mediastinoscopy with video-assisted mediastinoscopy (VAM). METHODS Twenty-four pigs were randomly assigned to NOTES or VAM. Thirty-minute mediastinoscopies were performed with the identification of seven predetermined structu...

Experience with Mediastinoscopy.

History of extended cervical mediastinoscopy.

We appreciate and read with great interest the article by Call et al. [1] about their extensive experience with extended mediastinoscopy. We fully support their conclusion. In our personal experiencewith now 108 cases extendedmediastinoscopyrevealedN2disease instations5or6 in17%ofallpatients. In 11%ofall patients only these stationswerepositive,meaning that with standard medastinoscopy without ...

Tuberculosis and mediastinoscopy.

Biopsy of lymph nodes at mediastinoscopy has been the method of diagnosis of tuberculosis in 14 patients; Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from the nodes in nine cases, and in five there was histological evidence of the disease but cultural confirmation was lacking. All patients had radiographic abnormality of the superior mediastinum, and a frequent finding at mediastinoscopy was medias...

Extended cervical mediastinoscopy revisited.

OBJECTIVES To describe the diagnostic value of selective extended cervical mediastinoscopy (ECM) in combination with video-assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy (VAMLA) in mediastinal staging of potentially resectable left-sided lung carcinoma. METHODS Institutional report on 110 ECM procedures indicated for enlarged lymph nodes within the aorto-pulmonary (AP) zone on computed tomography....