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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;66:187-192
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original articles: general thoracic

Multicenter VATS experience with mediastinal tumors

Todd L. Demmy, MDa, Mark J. Krasna, MDb, Frank C. Detterbeck, MDc, Gary G. Kline, MDd, Leslie J. Kohman, MDe, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Jr, MDf, John C. Wain, MDg

a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics, Columbia, Missouri, USA
b Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
c Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
d Department of Surgery, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Long Island, New York, USA
e Department of Surgery, State University of New York at Syracuse, Syracuse, New York, USA
f Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
g Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr Demmy, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Missouri, 245 Major Hall, Dc119.0, Columbia, MO 65212

Presented at the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, Naples, FL, Nov 6–8, 1997.

Background. The use of video-assisted thoracic surgery for diagnosis and treatment of mediastinal tumors in a multiinstitution patient population is not well understood.

Methods. We studied 48 cases from Cancer and Leukemia Group B thoracic surgeons. Of 21 men and 27 women, aged 41 ± 16 years, 22 patients were asymptomatic. In the others, 92% of tumor-related symptoms improved or resolved after treatment. Five tumors involved the anterior compartment, 19 the middle, and 24 the posterior compartment. Diagnoses were typical for each compartment but also included uncommon problems such as superior vena cava hemangioma and a histoplasmosis cyst causing hoarseness. Of the lesions, a biopsy of 12 was done without excision and the rest were excised completely. Fifteen were cystic and 10 were malignant (8 biopsy only). Maximal dimensions were 5.2 ± 3.3 cm.

Results. Operations were briefer for 24 posterior (93 ± 41 min) than 5 anterior (195 ± 46 min, p < 0.01) or 19 middle mediastinal tumors (170 ± 78 min, p < 0.01). Although 96% had vital mediastinal relations, only six open conversions were performed because of bleeding (n = 3), large size, impaired exposure, or rib attachments, and no patient had morbidity beyond that expected for the thoracotomy. Postoperative stay was shorter for the nonconversion group (3.2 ± 2.8 versus 5.5 ± 2.1 days, p = 0.05), as was chest tube duration (1.7 ± 1.4 days versus 3.2 ± 1.9 days, p = 0.03). There were no postoperative deaths or major complications, but 7 patients had minor complications. During a mean of 20 months of surveillance (range, 1 to 52 months), one cyst recurred (asymptomatic) as did one sarcoma that was excised.

Conclusions. Video-assisted thoracic surgery is a safe technique for benign mediastinal tumors, typically those in the middle and posterior mediastinum.




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