title: [Esophageal leiomyoma. Six cases of video-assisted enucleation].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report our experience with video-assisted enucleation of esophageal leiomyomas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis of six (five men and a woman) patients who underwent video-assisted submucosal tumor enucleation (4 with thoracoscopy and 2 with laparoscopy).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only one patient had postoperative complications: a parietal hematoma at a trocar site and a fever with right pleural, resolved after pleural drainage. Outcome was satisfactory for all patients, and no relapses have been noted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Video-assisted surgery offers incontrovertible advantages for the treatment of this benign pathology.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Place d'Arsonval, Lyon (69). Electronic address: aousadden@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: Abdelmalek
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ousadden
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Place d'Arsonval, Lyon (69).
authors.forename: Raphaël
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bourdariat
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Place d'Arsonval, Lyon (69).
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Poncet
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Place d'Arsonval, Lyon (69).
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boulez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery / Q000379:methods*