Video-assisted thoracoscopic excision of intrathoracic masses in children: report of two cases.
Video-assisted thoracoscopy was used to remove a bronchogenic cyst in a 6-year-old boy and a foregut duplication cyst in a 2-year-old girl. Access ports were placed along the site of a proposed thoracotomy incision and chest tube exit site. Thoracoscopic excision was uneventful, and each child left the hospital on the second postoperative day. Video-assisted thoracoscopy has a role in the evaluation and the definitive treatment of intrathoracic masses in children.
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Division of Pediatric Surgery, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University Children's Hospital, Hershey 17033.
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D001994:Bronchogenic Cyst / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003560:Cysts / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014741:Video Recording