Chylothorax after sternotomy for aortocoronary bypass surgery is a rare but serious complication. To avoid lateral thoracotomy a left sided thoracoscopy was performed and the site of the leakage was immediately found and successfully clipped.

Thoracoscopy is increasingly being used for diagnosis and treatment of pleuropulmonary disease. The recent revival was made possible by the tremendous advances in endoscopic technology. The main requirements for diagnostic purposes are rigid telescopes and forceps, and for interventional thoracoscopy scissors, staplers and a video recorder. The procedure can be performed either under local or g...

OBJECTIVE We directly examined the thoracic cavity by thoracoscopy under local anesthesia, performed pleural biopsy, and made a definitive pathological diagnosis in tuberculous pleurisy. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective study of 32 patients who had been bacteriologically and pathologically diagnosed with tuberculous pleurisy by thoracoscopy under local anesthesia in our hospi...

AIMS The aim of this study was to compare long term survival after resection of solitary pulmonary metastasis on CT scan performed by either thoracoscopy or through a standard thoracotomy. METHODS Patients with a solitary, CT scan confirmed, peripherally located lesion suspected for metastasis, less than 3cm in diameter were included. End points were: postoperative complication rate, disease ...

HYPOTHESIS The digital exploration of stab wounds in the left thoracoabdominal region allows the early diagnosis of diaphragmatic lesions. DESIGN Diagnostic test study. The digital exploration of the diaphragm was compared with laparotomy (the gold standard) and thoracoscopy. SETTING The study setting was the Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl (Medellín, Colombia). This is a referra...

Thoracoscopy is a technique introduced more than 100 years ago. The first reported thoracoscopy is thought to be performed as early as 1866 by an Irish urologist Francis Richard Cruise. He examined the pleural cavity through pleurocutenous fistula of an 11-year-old girl with empyema.[1] However, Hans-Christian Jacobaeus, an internist from Sweden, is regarded to be the father of thoracoscopy, si...

Objective: This study aims to investigate the effect of thoracoscopy combined with fast-track surgery in the surgical treatment of small-cell lung cancer. Method: A total of 120 patients who were admitted in our hospital and underwent surgery for small-cell lung cancer from February 2015 to February 2016 were selected in this study. The patients were divided into an observation group and a cont...