title: Primary repair of an iatrogenic bronchial rupture under video mediastinoscopy.
abstract: Complications after performing mediastinoscopy are uncommon, but they may occur even for an experienced surgeon. The major complications have the potential to be life-threatening injuries, such as major vascular or airway injury. A 51-year-old man presented to our hospital due to mediastinal node enlargement on follow-up after he had undergone gastric cancer surgery 2 years previously. An iatrogenic bronchial rupture occurred while performing mediastinoscopic biopsy, and this injury was primarily repaired with multiple direct interrupted sutures, along with the aid of a homemade knot pusher under video mediastinoscopy, and we did not have to convert to an open thoracotomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Young-Du
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Chan-Beom
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jae-Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Chi-Kyung
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seok-Whan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Moon
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008297:Male; D008481:Mediastinoscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D012421:Rupture; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery