The value of mediastinoscopy in preoperative staging of bronchogenic carcinoma

The value of parasternal mediastinoscopy in staging bronchial carcinoma.

Computed tomography (CT) is the non-invasive staging procedure of choice for assessment of metastasis to mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with bronchial carcinoma. Cervical mediastinoscopy can provide histologic evidence of mediastinal spread to the peritracheal, tracheobronchial and subcarinal lymph nodes. Sub-aortic and para-aortic nodes cannot be sampled via this route. The present study ...

The possible value of mediastinoscopy in staging Hodgkin's disease.

The first mediastinotomies were performed at the end of the 19th century as therapeutic attempts to treat mediastinitis, which at that time was a frequent and uniformly fatal complication of deep-seated neck infections. According to Palva (13), Heidenbain reported the first successful collar mediastinoscopy in 1899. During World War I, Marschik of the Viennese School introduced the concept of p...

Extended cervical mediastinoscopy: mature results of a clinical protocol for staging bronchogenic carcinoma of the left lung.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of extended cervical mediastinoscopy (ECM) in the staging of bronchogenic carcinoma (BC) of the left lung based on our updated experience. METHODS From 1998 to 2003, 89 patients underwent routine ECM for staging of BC of the left lung. In 2004, routine positron emission tomography (PET) was included in our staging protocol and ...

Staging of patients with bronchogenic carcinoma.

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Staging of bronchogenic carcinoma by bronchoscopy.