title: [The anesthetic management of a patient with a congenital mediastinal cyst undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)].
abstract: We recently conducted video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) on an 8-day-old boy in whom a congenital mediastinal cyst had caused obstruction of the left main bronchus. After the surgery, the cyst recurred and caused reobstruction of the airway. When he was 51-day-old, we conducted VATS again. We could not perform cystectomy by VATS because the left lung was inflated, and we conducted cystectomy by thoracotomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kemmotsu
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008297:Male; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery*; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D012086:Reoperation; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D013908:Thoracotomy