[Surgical treatment of mediastinal tumors]

Based on a statistic which included 700 cases of mediastinal tumours (of which 460 underwent surgery), hospitalized in the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery of the Phtysiology Institute from Bucharest, the authors stress the particularities of the surgical interventions, which were due to particularities of the surgical interventions, which were due to particularities and extension of the tumours themselves. The mortality of 2,7 percent is explained by the careful indications for surgery, and this was due to a careful preoperative diagnosis.