[Excision of mediastinal nodes using video-thoracoscopy].
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.
Riquet
M
M
Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Hôpital Laënnec, Paris.
Saab
M
M
Hubsch
J P
JP
Hirsch
J F
JF
Debesse
B
B
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*