title: Thoracoscopic resection of benign tumours of the esophagus.
abstract: Thoracoscopic excision of an esophageal leiomyoma was successfully performed in 5 patients. The tumours were enucleated easily without intraoperative complications. A patient in whom the muscular layer was not sutured after removal of the myoma, one year after the operation presented an esophageal pseudodiverticulum requiring a thoracotomy for resection. This new procedure which reduces the operative trauma and postoperative pain and allows quick recovery is described.
authors.affiliation: First Surgical Department, University of Padua, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bardini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asolati
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000517:prevention & control; D013906:Thoracoscopy