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Mediastinal epithelioid hemangioendothelioma resected by hemi-plastron window technique
Noritaka Isowa1, Seiki Hasegawa, Mari Mino
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 14, 2002
Abstract:
We report a case of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma arising from the left brachiocephalic vein in the anterior superior mediastinum of a 41-year-old man. The tumor was resected by local excision using a novel approach, the "hemi-plastron window" technique. The patient had an uneventful postoperative course and no recurrence of tumor 28 months after surgical treatment. We describe this surgical approach and discuss its advantage for cervicothoracic tumors.