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Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgical Procedures in Children
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual, 1998The general principles and current applications of pediatric video-assisted cardiothoracic surgery (PVACTS) are reviewed. The purpose of PVACTS is to improve surgical quality and precision in selected operations. In the 1990s PVACTS has expanded to include the management of a variety of pulmonary, mediastinal, and cardiac lesions.
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Lung Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis After Thoracic Surgical Procedures
Transplantation Proceedings, 2011During their life, cystic fibrosis (CF) patients may require thoracic surgical procedures for a number of reasons before undergoing lung transplantation. In the past, this has been considered to be a contraindication to lung transplantation. However, a meticulous surgical technique and careful intraoperative management allows one to perform the ...
M. Rolla +9 more
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Indication and Results of Thoracic Surgical Procedures in Premature Infants
1991This analysis concerns three groups of malformations: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, patent ductus arteriosus, and oesophageal atresia. We registered a total mortality rate for all congenital diaphragmatic hernias and defects of 28.5%; the rate in full-term neonates was 27.6% and in premature infants 33.6%.
E. Ring-Mrozik +3 more
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Thoracic complications of dental surgical procedures: Hazards of the dental drill
The American Journal of Medicine, 1993Dental surgical procedures occasionally result in intrathoracic complications that may subsequently be encountered by clinicians. We report four patients with such complications, including pneumomediastinum, fatal descending necrotizing mediastinitis, and Lemierre's syndrome.
E. Wesley Ely +3 more
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Thoracoscopic Approaches to the Thoracic Spine: Experience with 241 Surgical Procedures
Neurosurgery, 2002Abstract INTRODUCTION Microsurgical thoracoscopic approaches to the thoracic spine allow access to the spinal cord, spinal nerves, disc spaces, vertebral bodies, paravertebral soft tissues, and sympathetic chain with minimal invasiveness. METHODS
Kathy J. Kenny +2 more
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Development of less invasive surgical procedures for thoracic esophageal cancer
Diseases of the Esophagus, 2004In order to minimize the invasiveness of the operative procedure for thoracic esophageal cancer, several procedures have been introduced since January 1997. They included: (i) perioperative use of steroids; (ii) muscle-sparing thoracotomy without costectomy; (iii) preparation of the gastric tube with preservation of sufficient blood supply; (iv ...
Yoshihiro Nabeya +8 more
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Functional Operability in Thoracic Surgical Procedures
1989The bronchopulmonary system, like most other organ systems in the body, possesses a significant functional reserve. This is most apparent during exercise, when the pulmonary tidal volume and oxygen consumption can increase by a factor of 10–20 over basal values.
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Surgical treatment of late-onset idiopathic thoracic scoliosis. The Leeds procedure
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume, 1987Late-onset idiopathic scoliosis is associated with a rib hump in the thoracic region, and surgery is indicated when this deformity becomes unacceptable. Fifty patients with this deformity were treated by the Leeds procedure, which consists of segmental wiring to a kyphotically-contoured square-ended Harrington rod; this procedure not only derotates ...
Robert A. Dickson, IA Archer
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Choice of Surgical Procedures for Thoracic Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament
2007In our opinion, for patients with both cervical and thoracic OPLL, wide-ranging posterior decompression surgery with or without instrumentation is the treatment of choice [14]. For localized and exceedingly thick OPLL without cervical OPLL, either (1) posterior decompression and correction of thoracic kyphosis by instrumentation with or without a ...
Katsushi Takeshita +2 more
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