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Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

A 45-year old man with intermittent dyspnea was found to have a large mediastinal mass on chest radiograph. Computerized tomography scan revealed a 14.7 cm anterior mediastinal mass with cystic and solid components. The patient underwent a thoracoscopic resection of the mass without complication. Te...

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Autores principales: Hughes, Byron D, Okereke, Ikenna C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjx178
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description A 45-year old man with intermittent dyspnea was found to have a large mediastinal mass on chest radiograph. Computerized tomography scan revealed a 14.7 cm anterior mediastinal mass with cystic and solid components. The patient underwent a thoracoscopic resection of the mass without complication. Techniques utilized during this surgery may be helpful in avoiding pitfalls for other surgeons.
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spelling pubmed-57510282018-01-05 Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery Hughes, Byron D Okereke, Ikenna C J Surg Case Rep Case Report A 45-year old man with intermittent dyspnea was found to have a large mediastinal mass on chest radiograph. Computerized tomography scan revealed a 14.7 cm anterior mediastinal mass with cystic and solid components. The patient underwent a thoracoscopic resection of the mass without complication. Techniques utilized during this surgery may be helpful in avoiding pitfalls for other surgeons. Oxford University Press 2017-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5751028/ /pubmed/29308183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjx178 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2017. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
title Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
title_full Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
title_fullStr Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
title_full_unstemmed Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
title_short Giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
title_sort giant mediastinal mass: one-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjx178
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