title: Video-assisted thoracoscopic excision of intrathoracic masses in children: report of two cases.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgery, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University Children's Hospital, Hershey 17033.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Dillon
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Cilley
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Krummel
mesh_terms: 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