Mediastinoscopy

Experience with Mediastinoscopy.

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....

Anaesthesia for mediastinoscopy

Mediastinoscopy is a diagnostic procedure, which was first described by Carlens in 1959. Despite the availability of sophisticated imaging techniques (e.g. positron emission tomography), mediastinoscopy remains essential in the staging of lung cancer because of its high sensitivity (.80%) and specificity (100%). Other indications for mediastinoscopy include biopsy of mediastinal masses especial...

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 ...