BookMarcin Zielinski, Ramón Rami-Porta, editors.
Summary: Use of the transcervical approach in thoracic surgery has advanced significantly during the past 60 years, owing primarily to advances in technology. Nevertheless, the possibilities of this approach have never been compiled in a systematic way. This book aims to rectify the situation by describing, in a structured way, all the thoracic procedures that can be performed using the transcervical approach. Indications and contraindications, surgical techniques, complications, and results are all covered, based on the authors' experience and published reports. The contents encompass diverse surgical endoscopic procedures for diagnosis and staging, use of the transcervical approach for surgery to the thymus and mediastinum, lungs and bronchi, trachea, and esophagus, and miscellaneous items including the role of robotic surgery.
Contents:
Scalene Fat Pad Biopsy
Mediastinoscopy
Extended Cervical Mediastinoscopy
Remediastinoscopy
Cervical Mediastino-Thoracoscopy
Cervical Incision Thoracic Endoscopic Surgery (CITES)
Cervical Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (C-VATS)
Mediastinoscopic Ultrasonography (MUS) as a Surgical Adjuvant in Lung Cancer Staging
Video-Assisted Mediastinoscopic Lymphadenectomy (VAMLA)
Transcervical Extended Mediastinal Lymphadenectomy (TEMLA): The Standard Procedure and Its Variations
Transcervical Thymectomy and Extended Thymectomy with Bilateral Opening of the Mediastinal Pleura
Technique of the Transcervical-Subxiphoid-Videothoracoscopic Maximal Thymectomy
Rethymectomy in the Treatment of Refractory Myasthenia Gravis: Operative Technique Through the Transcervical Approach
Transcervical Resection of Mediastinal Tumors
Miscellaneous Indications of the Transcervical Approach to the Mediastinum
Transcervical Right and Left Upper Pulmonary Lobectomies
Transcervical Approach of the Main Bronchus
Tracheal Resection
Oesophageal Procedures
Transcervical Robotic Access in Thoracic Surgery: Feasibility and Alternatives
Future Perspectives of the Use of the Transcervical Approach.