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Combined median sternotomy and video-assisted thoracoscopic resection of pulmonary metastases
S R Hazelrigg1, K Naunheim, J E Auer
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee.
Chest
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
Median sternotomy has been a common approach for resection of bilateral pulmonary metastases. It provides good exposure and quick accessibility to most lesions in the lung. The retrocardiac left lower lobe may at times be a problematic area for resection of metastases. We have used a simultaneous median sternotomy and left video-assisted thoracoscopic approach to remove three such lesions in two patients, with satisfactory results.