Thoracoscopic Thymectomy

Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy.

Access from the right chest is generally easier. In this case however, the thymoma was predominantly left-sided and therefore a left-sided approach was preferred. The anesthetist places a double lumen tube to allow isolation of the required lung. The patient is placed with the chest elevated to an angle of around 30 degrees. This allows the plane between the sternum and thymus to be developed e...

thoracoscopic thymectomy

Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy

Thymectomy is the treatment for thymoma or Myasthenia Gravis patients. With the development of thoracoscopic surgical instruments and techniques in recent years, single port video assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy is increasingly practiced for such patients. Although single port thymectomy is feasible and may be preferable, there is a lack of detailed step-by-step procedures outlined in the lit...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy vs "maximal" thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.

state, "there were no changes in the control group." This suggests that data of the control group were not compared with the data of the study groups, but data of different time points were compared within the group. It is therefore of interest that the number of five patients is too low, and with nonparametric data it is hard to dem¬ onstrate any statistically significant change. Additionally,...

Thoracoscopic thymectomy in a patient with pemphigus.

The Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Tristan D. Yan, MD, MS, PhD, FRACS. Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, Australia; The Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Macquarie U...