Experience with Mediastinoscopy

Experience with Mediastinoscopy.

Mediastinoscopy and bronchial carcinoma: experience with 600 mediastinoscopies.

Of 600 mediastinoscopies carried out from 1966 to 1973, 479 were performed to assess the operability of a pulmonary carcinoma. Of these, 206 (43%) were positive and 273 (57%) were negative. Of the 161 patients found positive during an initial period, 147 were refused operation; the remaining 14 were considered suitable candidates for operation, either because only one homolateral lymph node sit...

Repeat mediastinoscopy in all its indications: experience with 96 patients and 101 procedures.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of repeat mediastinoscopy (reMS) in all its indications, and to analyse survival in the group of patients who underwent induction chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for pathologically proven stage III-N2 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS From July 1992 to February 2009, 96 patients (87 men; median age: 61.3 years), underwent 101 reMSs (five patients...

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....