[Partial cervicosternotomy for resection of non-bronchogenic tumors of the thoracic outlet].

Objective: To improve the results of surgical treatment of cervico-mediastinal tumors by using of partial upper cervicosternotomy.

Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis included 24 patients who underwent resection of cervico-mediastinal tumors via partial upper cervicosternotomy for the period from January 2002 to December 2019. Immediate and intermediate postoperative outcomes were analyzed.

[Comparative analysis of thoracoscopic and open thymectomy for thymoma stage I-II].

Objective: To improve the short-term postoperative outcomes in patients with thymoma stage I-II by using of thoracoscopic thymectomy (VATS TE) and to compare this technique with open (OTE) thymectomy.

Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis included 98 patients who had undergone surgery for thymoma stage I and II for the period from January 2001 to December 2019. VATS TE (main group) was performed in 53 (54.

[Outcomes of minimally invasive surgery for mediastinal neurogenic tumors].

Objective: To improve postoperative outcomes in patients with mediastinal neurogenic tumors by using of minimally invasive surgical approaches.

Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis included 108 patients who underwent surgery for mediastinal neurogenic tumors for the period 2001-2019. Short-term outcomes of conventional and minimally invasive (VATS, supraclavicular approach and their combination with laminectomy) surgeries were analyzed.

[Possibilities of intraoperative thermal chemotherapy in radical surgery for advanced gastric cancer pt4a-4bn0-3M0].

The paper evaluates results of randomized study of treatment of 135 patients for II-IIIB stage resectable gastric cancer (Borrmann type III and IV); of them 70 underwent intraoperative hyperthermic chemotherapy based on a technique adopted in the clinic. It has been noted the improvement of long-term results in particular the increase of dissemination-free survival (plog-rank=0,004) especially in patients with absence of metastases in regional lymph nodes (pN0) - (plog-rank=0,03). Application of an integrated technique appears to improve remote results thereby necessitating the need for further studies.