Confronting Upside-Down Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Posterior Mediastinal Müllerian Duct Cysts

Momoka Harada1, Tomonari Oki1, Shuhei Iizuka1

  • 1Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, JPN.

Cureus
|February 23, 2026
PubMed
Summary

This study reports the first successful resection of a rare posterior mediastinal Müllerian duct cyst using video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) with an upside-down monitor. This novel VATS approach offers excellent visualization for complex thoracic surgeries.