title: [Surgical thoracoscopy].
abstract: Thoracoscopic adhesiolysis since 1913 (Jacobaeus). Thoracoscopic targets: Sympathetic system, vagus system, lymphatic system, lung.
  
  
  METHODS
  Arterial circulation disturbances, posttraumatic reflexdystrophy ("Sudeck"), Hyperhidrosis syndromes, erythrodermy syndromes; pain syndromes: causalgiform, splanchnicotomy for chronic pancreatitis. For peptic jejunal ulcer thoracoscopic splanchnico-vagotomy. For bronchial asthma selective vagotomy of bronchial rami. Operative techniques. Hemostasis: low-frequency thermocoagulation, unipolar and bipolar high-frequency coagulation, with thermostabilisation. Videoendoscopy with minicameras. Electronic frame freezing for colour slides.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Neurovegetative Chirurgie und Endoskopie, Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wittmoser
mesh_terms: D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D020708:Thoracoscopes; D014741:Video Recording / Q000295:instrumentation