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Prone-position thoracoscopic resection of posterior mediastinal lymph node metastasis from rectal cancer

Mediastinal lymph node metastasis from colorectal cancer is rare, and barely any reports have described resection of this pathology. We report herein a successful thoracoscopic resection of mediastinal lymph node metastasis in a prone position. A 65-year-old man presented with posterior mediastinal...

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Autores principales: Shirakawa, Yasuhiro, Noma, Kazuhiro, Koujima, Takeshi, Maeda, Naoaki, Tanabe, Shunsuke, Ohara, Toshiaki, Fujiwara, Toshiyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25880389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0466-0
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Sumario:Mediastinal lymph node metastasis from colorectal cancer is rare, and barely any reports have described resection of this pathology. We report herein a successful thoracoscopic resection of mediastinal lymph node metastasis in a prone position. A 65-year-old man presented with posterior mediastinal lymph node metastasis after resection of the primary rectal cancer and metachronous hepatic metastasis. Metastatic lymph nodes were resected completely using thoracoscopic surgery in the prone position, which provided advantages of minimal invasiveness, good surgical field, and reduced ergonomic burden on the surgeon. Thoracoscopic resection in the prone position was thought to have the potential to become the standard procedure of posterior mediastinal tumors.