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Non-Intubated Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
Published on: May 26, 2023
[Video-assisted mediastinoscopic surgery]
1Sektion Thoraxchirurgie, Lungenzentrum Koblenz, Katholisches Klinikum Koblenz, Kardinal-Krementz-Strasse 1-5, 56073, Koblenz, Germany. b.witte@kk-koblenz.de
Abstract:
Introduced in the 1990s, videomediastinoscopes dramatically improved imaging of the mediastinal structures, and made mediastinoscopy more standardized, user-friendly, and accessible to trainees. Not surprisingly they have been replacing conventional mediastinoscopes for routine biopsy and staging procedures. However it was development of the two-bladed spreadable videomediastinoscope by Linder and Dahan that allowed increased exposure, bimanual dissection, and thus the development of new minimally invasive surgical techniques. The best documented method is video-assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy (VAMLA), which enables extremely accurate staging and definitive mediastinal surgery.
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