The role of video-assisted thoracic surgery in the surgical treatment of superior sulcus tumors.
The surgical resection of sulcus superior tumors, also referred to as Pancoast tumors, remains a challenging surgical procedure. A patient presented with a superior sulcus tumor situated anterior in the thoracic inlet. The tumor was resected through a transmanubrial approach of Grunenwald combined with a video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. VATS can be very helpful in determining the exact location of the resection and at the same time performing a lobectomy avoiding extra morbidity due to a classical thoracotomy.
Truin
Wilfred
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Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Atrium Medical Center Parkstad, Henri Dunantstraat 5, PO Box, 6401 CX Heerlen, The Netherlands. wilfredtruin@hotmail.com
Siebenga
Jan
J
Belgers
Eric
E
Bollen
Ewald C M
EC
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D008371:Manubrium / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted