Left-sided approach for robotic thymectomy: technical tips, advantages and drawbacks

Left-sided approach video-assisted thymectomy for the treatment of thymic diseases

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy was developed more than 10 years ago and has become a widely accepted surgical approach. Most published reports regarding this procedure have focused on the right-sided approach. Since left-sided approach chest surgery is the first choice in cases of right pleural adhesion, large left thymus tumors, and tumors in close contact with the great ve...

Robotic Thymectomy

After the great success of minimally invasive approach in abdominal surgery, thoracoscopic surgery has gained a broad acceptance for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures due to the fact that permits good exposure of the pleural cavity, enables extensive dissection and combines the advantages of minimal invasive surgery with little tissue trauma, short recovery, less pain and improved cosmetic ...

Robotic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.

We present a case of a 32-year-old female affected by moderate generalized (MGFA Class IIIb) myasthenia gravis (MG) (Figure 1). She presented with ptosis and generalized weakness and fatigue for the past 10 months. Neurological cl inical evaluation was suggestive for MG, while electromyography and dosage of circulating acetylcholine receptor antibodies were both positive. There was no previous ...

Robotic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.

Advantages and Drawbacks of Variational Inequality Formulations

In recent years, the variational inequality framework has been recognized as a powerful modelling tool in operations research and economics, whenever equilibrium relationships among several agents occur. This interest has prompted researchers to develop eecient algorithms for solving variational inequalities in nite dimensional spaces. In this presentation we will try to assess the advantages a...