title: Mediastinal epithelioid hemangioendothelioma resected by hemi-plastron window technique.
abstract: We report a case of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma arising from the left brachiocephalic vein in the anterior superior mediastinum of a 41-year-old man. The tumor was resected by local excision using a novel approach, the "hemi-plastron window" technique. The patient had an uneventful postoperative course and no recurrence of tumor 28 months after surgical treatment. We describe this surgical approach and discuss its advantage for cervicothoracic tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: Noritaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Isowa
authors.forename: Seiki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mino
authors.forename: Kojiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods