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Video-assisted thoracoscopic extirpation of a posterior mediastinal mass using the da Vinci computer enhanced
Ichiro Yoshino1, Makoto Hashizume, Mitsuo Shimada
1Department of Surgery and Science, a Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. iyoshino@surg2.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 29, 2002
Abstract:
A 28-year-old woman presented a left posterior mediastinal mass surrounded by the intercostal vein, hemiazygos vein, sympathetic nerve, and descending aorta. We successfully resected the mass, that was revealed to be a bronchogenic cyst, by a totally thoracoscopic procedure using the da Vinci computer-enhanced system (Intutive Surgical, Mountain View, CA) without injuring the neighboring structures or the capsule of the mass.