BACKGROUND Repeat cervical mediastinoscopy is a diagnostic surgical procedure for preoperative nodal staging in patients with insufficient first mediastinoscopy, with recurrent or second primary lung neoplasms, and following induction chemotherapy or chemo-/radiotherapy for locally advanced lung cancer. The aim of this study was to critically analyse indications, technical characteristics, intr...

Abstract Background To avoid the inconvenience of triangulation among various rigid operating instruments in mediastinoscopy-assisted esophagectomy, we invented a new technique: used flexible endoscope to mobilize thoracic esophagus and dissected mediastinal lymph nodes through left cervical incision. This technology has not been reported so far. In this study, introduce our long-term experienc...

INTRODUCTION Cervical mediastinoscopy is the gold standard for obtaining histological diagnosis of mediastinal pathology. It has been used for the staging of lung cancer as well as to determine the cause of Isolated Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy. There is very limited evidence in the literature of its use in Nigeria to assess mediastinal pathology. The aim of this study was to describe our instit...

OBJECTIVE To study the specific importance of mediastinal staging in women with nonsmall cell lung cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between July 1981 and September 2003 we surgically staged 2172 patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer who met the inclusion criteria for resectability and operability. A subgroup of 108 women was studied. Cervical mediastinoscopy was performed in all cases, with the...

With nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), accurate mediastinal nodal staging is crucial to determine whether a patient is or is not a surgical candidate. Traditionally, computed tomography (CT) and fluorodeoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/CT are the initial steps followed by tissue sampling through mediastinoscopy and/or thoracotomy, which are invasive procedures. There is c...