A variety of disease in the chest can be treated with thoracoscopic surgery. Although with limited experience, thoracoscopic surgery can be performed with single-port approach. Theoretically, single-port approach can be applied in treating bilateral pleural effusions. Here we reported a case of 28-year-old man with the diagnosis of septic embolization of the lung with complications of bilateral...

Mediastinal lymph node metastasis from colorectal cancer is rare, and barely any reports have described resection of this pathology. We report herein a successful thoracoscopic resection of mediastinal lymph node metastasis in a prone position. A 65-year-old man presented with posterior mediastinal lymph node metastasis after resection of the primary rectal cancer and metachronous hepatic metas...

Thoracoscopic needle aspiration is a good alternative for a centrally-located solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) suspected of being lung cancer without severe pleural adhesion. The authors report the technique of thoracoscopic needle aspiration biopsy in a SPN just in the medial aspect of the truncus anterior pulmonary artery and the right upper lobe bronchus.

Imaged thoracoscopic surgery is a technique utilized to operate on the intrathoracic organs without making a formal thoracotomy incision. Eleven patients underwent lung biopsy with this procedure and each had markedly reduced postoperative pain. Each patient resumed preoperative activity levels within one week of discharge from the hospital. Besides thoracotomy and thoracoscopy, imaged thoracos...

results the mean duration of esophagectomy was 70 minutes and the total operation 180 minutes. the mean amount of bleeding during surgery was 250 cc. conversion to open approach occurred only in one patient out of 15. no cases of anastomotic leakage or pneumonia was observed. also, no case of mortality was reported. patients and methods this is a prospective study of 15 selected patients who un...

conclusions in cases of pontaneous pneumothorax, chest x ray and computerised tomographic scan have limitations. ct scan in combination with video assisted thoracoscopic surgery improves diagnostic accuracy and facilitates appropriate management of non-resolving spontaneous pneumothorax. objectives a 15 year old boy presented to the referring hospital with a right sided spontaneous pneumothorax...

AIM The apparent incidence of antenatally diagnosed congenital lung malformations (CLM) is rising (1 in 3000), and the majority undergo elective resection even if asymptomatic. Thoracoscopy has been popularized, but early series report high conversion rates and significant complications. We aimed to perform systematic review/meta-analysis of outcomes of thoracoscopic vs open excision of asympto...

Traditionally, thoracotomy was the most common thoracic surgical approach before the advent of minimally invasive devices. The malignant lesions can be fully exposed and resected, however, there are major concerns associated with post-operative and severe pulmonary complications and prolonged wound healing. This is largely due to massive surgical trauma and intraoperative loss of blood loss, al...

BACKGROUND Recurrent herniation is a well-known complication following the initial repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernias (CDHs). The role of minimally invasive surgical techniques in recurrent CDH remains undefined. The purpose of this study was to evaluate our early experience with thoracoscopic repair compared with traditional open repair in children with recurrent CDH. SUBJECTS AND ME...

AIM Departmental survey of the pediatric laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS It is a retrospective study from January 1999 to December 2007. The various types of surgeries, number of patients, complications and conversions of laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures were analyzed. RESULTS The number of minimally invasive procedures that had been performed over ...