title: Thoracoscopic removal of benign tumours of the oesophagus.
abstract: Thoracoscopic excision of an oesophageal leiomyoma was successfully performed in 4 patients. The tumours were enucleated easily without intraoperative complication. A patient in whom the muscular layer was not sutured after removal of the myoma presented with a pseudo-diverticulum one year after the operation and required a thoracotomy for resection. This new procedure which reduces the operative trauma and postoperative pain and allows quick recovery, is described.
authors.affiliation: University of Padua, 1. Surgical Department, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bardini
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Segalin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asolati
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonavina
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pavanello
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D020701:Esophagoscopes; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D020708:Thoracoscopes; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed