title: [Video-assisted thoracoscopic procedure in the diagnosis and treatment of lung lesions].
abstract: In the last years the videotoracoscopics interventions enter more and more widely in everyday practice of the thoracic surgeons. Diagnostic resources of the videotoracoscopics procedures are incomparable larger than these of the others diagnostical methods. In big part of the cases the diagnostical procedure change in therapeutic. The multitude of advantages compensates the high value of the equipment, which increases the popularity of this method. For about 4 years in the Clinic of Thoracic Surgery at the Military Medical Academy are operated by VATS 24 patients with unqualified histological lung lesions. The most part of the cases are with lung carcinoma the intervention is finished only with biopsy and stading in 13 cases (54%) and in the last 46%--11 patients--is carried out treatment--lung resection. The histological reliable after procedure is 100% with video control of imaging. All those things make the VATS procedure the best choice for histological unidentified lung lesions, before explorative thoracotomy, sternotomy and mediastinoscopy and mediastinotomy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Asenov
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Iuordanov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D002812:Chondroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D017565:Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*