Outpatient video-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.

Cervico-mediastinal goiter: is telescopic exploration of the mediastinum (video mediastinoscopy) useful?

Surgeons are aware that most mediastinal goiters can be excised through a Kocher transverse collar incision, but in rare circumstances a partial-complete median sternotomy or a thoracotomy are mandatory. During an operation to remove a large cervico-mediastinal goiter (CMG) a profound, not massive, bleeding in the anterior mediastinum developed. Bleeding was unsuccessfully treated with packing....

A retrospective study about 140 mediastinal lymphadenectasis patients receiving video - assisted mediastinoscopy

This study aimed to provide theoretical bases for choosing examination methods onpatients with mediastinal lymphadenectasis. The clinical characteristics of 140 patients with unexplained mediastinal lymphadenectasis who received video-assisted mediastinoscopy (VAM) were reviewed retrospectively. The relationship between various factors and pathological results of mediastinal lymphadenectasis wa...

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...