Two to five years pulmonary functions after thoracic, thoracolumbar and bilateral vertebral body tethering surgery.

Purpose: Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis negatively impacts chest wall development. Bracing and fusion surgery have shown varied effects on pulmonary outcomes. Vertebral Body Tethering presents a growth-sparing alternative that might mitigate these effects by reducing biomechanical disruptions.

Does vertebral body tethering cause disc and facet joint degeneration? A preliminary MRI study with minimum two years follow-up.

Background Context: Vertebral body tethering (VBT), a flexible compression-based growth modulation technique, was claimed to prevent disc degeneration due to its less rigid nature compared to other growth-friendly techniques. Yet, the consequences of VBT surgery on discs and facet joints have not been precisely acknowledged.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in the intermediate and adjacent levels at least 2 years after surgery.

Thoracoscopic Vertebral Body Tethering for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Follow-up Curve Behavior According to Sanders Skeletal Maturity Staging.

Study Design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data.

Objective: To report the follow-up curve behaviors in different Sanders staging groups.

Summary Of Background Data: Vertebral body tethering (VBT) is a growth modulation technique that allows gradual spontaneous follow-up curve correction as the patient grows.

Early-term postoperative thoracic outcomes of videothoracoscopic vertebral body tethering surgery.

Background: This study aims to discuss the early-term postoperative thoracic complications in videothoracoscopic anterior vertebral body tethering surgery.

Methods: The study included 56 patients (3 males, 53 females; mean age 12.6 years; range, 10 to 16 years) operated with a total of 65 videothoracoscopic anterior vertebral body tethering surgeries between April 2014 and November 2018.

Single-Incision Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for an Extralobar Sequestration in a Child.

Uniportal or single-incision video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has been performed successfully in adult patients with different intrathoracic pathologies for years. However, no report in uniportal/single-incision VATS in pediatric patients in the English literature has been published up to date. This may be explained by the limited number of patients and the difficulties in working in very narrow thoracic cavity of babies and children.

Sternal fixation with nonspecific plate.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to fixate displaced sternum fractures with a nonspecific plate, without a sternotomy procedure.

Method: Between May 2010 and December 2011, 15 patients with sternal fractures were included in this study. We performed fixation for 8 of 15 sternal fracture patients.

Superiority of video-assisted to standard mediastinoscopy in non-small-cell lung cancer staging.

Background: We compared the efficiency of videomediastinoscopy (VM) and standard mediastinoscopy (SM) in detecting mediastinal lymph node (MLN) metastasis in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Methods: By SM method a surgeon sampled bilateral paratracheal and subcarinal lymph node stations and then by VM method, another surgeon resampled all lymph node stations once more through the same incision in the same operative setting. Results of the pathologic examinations of two methods were compared.

Streptokinase for malignant pleural effusions: a randomized controlled study.

Effective palliative treatment in malignant pleural effusion can only be carried out when the lung is fully expanded after drainage of effusion. We investigated the efficacy of intrapleural fibrinolytics for lysing fibrin deposits and improving lung reexpansion in patients with malignant pleural effusion. We randomly allocated 47 patients with malignant pleural effusion into 2 groups: a fibrinolytic group of 24 were given 3 cycles of 250,000 U intrapleural streptokinase; the control group of 23 received pleural drainage only.

An unusual presentation of Castleman's disease.

Castleman's disease is one of the heterogeneous group of lymphoproliferative disorders of unknown aetiology. It commonly presents as a mediastinal mass. It can be unicentric involving only a single site, or multicentric involving multiple sites.

The autologous pleural buttressing of staple lines in surgery for bullous lung disease.

Objective: Prolonged air leak remains as one of the most common complications after surgery for bullous lung disease. Reinforcement of the staple line with either prosthetic material or bovine pericardial strips has been advocated to avoid this problem. We used the patients' own parietal pleural layer to cover the staple lines to prevent air leak and subsequently assessed the comparative results.

Lung decortication for chronic empyaema: effects on pulmonary function and thoracic asymmetry in the late period.

Objective: Chronic empyaema deteriorates lung function and causes thoracic asymmetry due to intercostal narrowing in the diseased hemithorax. This study aims to investigate the rates of improvement in the pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and the thoracic deformity in late postoperative period of lung decortication, performed for chronic empyaema.

Methods: A total of 50 patients who underwent standard open decortication for empyaema were included.

Comparison of the single or double chest tube applications after pulmonary lobectomies.

Objective: Draining of the chest cavity with two chest tubes after pulmonary lobectomy is a common practice. This study aimed to investigate whether using two tubes after a pulmonary lobectomy is more effective than using a single tube.

Method: This prospective randomised study included 100 consecutive patients who underwent lobectomy or bilobectomy for any pathological condition between May 2006 and November 2007.