UPSTAGING, CENTRALITY AND SURVIVAL IN EARLY STAGE NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY.

Objectives: Hiliar (pN1) and mediastinal lymph (pN2) nodal upstaging after surgery for early stage ( View Article and Find Full Text PDF

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.

Anterior mediastinal tracheostomy as salvage operation.

Background: This study aimed to assess early and long-term results after anterior mediastinal tracheostomy (AMT) as a salvage operation for recurrent neck malignancies.

Methods: Between October 2006 and February 2013, 12 patients (mean age, 57 years) underwent AMT. All patients had experienced stomal recurrence, with or without esophageal involvement, after laryngectomy.

Cardiorespiratory impact of transesophageal endoscopic mediastinoscopy compared with cervical mediastinoscopy: a randomized experimental study.

Background: Transesophageal natural-orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) mediastinoscopy has been described as a feasible, less-invasive alternative to video-assisted mediastinoscopy (VAM). We aimed to investigate hemodynamic and respiratory effects during transesophageal NOTES mediastinoscopy compared with VAM.

Patients And Methods: This was a short-survival experiment in 20 female pigs randomized to NOTES (n = 10) or VAM (n = 10) mediastinoscopy.

Lung incarceration after anterior mediastinal tracheostomy.

A 63-year-old man underwent anterior mediastinal tracheostomy for postradiotherapy stoma ulceration exposing the left anterolateral tracheal side, cervical vessels, and pharynx. An anterior chest wall defect (hemiclaviculectomy, manubriectomy, and resection of anterior third of first and second ribs bilaterally) was covered by a myocutaneous pectoral flap, and a new tracheostoma was constructed in the middle of the skin island. At postoperative day 7, a protrusion of the right upper lobe outside the thoracic cavity through the anterior chest wall defect was detected.