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Thoracoscopic and robotic dissection of mediastinal lymph nodes
Douglas J Minnich1, Ayesha S Bryant, Robert J Cerfolio
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 703 19th Street South, 716 ZRB, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Abstract:
Understanding the anatomy of the lymphatic channels and lymph nodes in the mediastinum is relevant to many disease processes as well as therapeutic interventions for thoracic malignancies. A brief review of the anatomy of the mediastinal lymph nodes is presented and the indications for mediastinal lymph node dissection are discussed, followed by a more detailed description of the technical aspects of thoracoscopic and robotic mediastinal lymph node dissection.
