title: [Excision of mediastinal nodes using video-thoracoscopy].
abstract: A man of seventy-one years with gross respiratory failure was suspected of having a cancer of the right upper lobe with metastases to the right pretracheal and intertracheobronchial nodes. A diagnostic mediastinoscopy did not achieve a diagnosis, and a right sub-bronchial node biopsy was performed, using videothoracoscopy and this revealed the presence of tuberculosis without any further delay.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Hôpital Laënnec, Paris.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Riquet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saab
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hubsch
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Debesse
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008481:Mediastinoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014743:Videotape Recording / Q000379:methods*