Mediastinoscopy in Assessing Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy and Lung Disease

Mediastinoscopy, Mediastinotomy And Thoracoscopy For Mediastinal Lesions

Diagnosisof Mycobacterial Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy

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Mediastinoscopy in the Treatment of Mediastinal Cysts

OBJECTIVE Primary cysts constitute 25% of all masses in the mediastinum. Because radiological investigations are often inconclusive, many adults require mediastinoscopy, thoracotomy, video-assisted thoracic surgery, or computed tomography-guided transbronchial, transesophageal, or transcutaneous aspiration to confirm the cystic nature of these lesions. Minimally invasive procedures fail when th...

Mediastinoscopy: a diagnostic procedure in hilar and paratracheal lymphadenopathy.

Mediastinoscopy, in the skilled hands of a thoracic surgeon, is a safe, cosmetically accepted procedure with negligible complications, less than that reported in many series of scalene node biopsies. It has the advantage of yielding a much higher rate of diagnostic tissue, in all instances over 90%O. In the cases of tuberculosis it enabled an organism to be isolated and sensitivities obtained. ...

Isolated Mediastinal Adenopathy: The Case for Mediastinoscopy

BACKGROUND We report our experience with mediastinoscopy at Auckland city hospital, a tertiary referral centre. We wished to examine correlations between clinical diagnosis and that made by histological sampling of enlarged mediastinal nodes particularly in patients with isolated mediastinal adenopathy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed clinical records of all patients who underwent mediast...