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Mediastinoscopy: A Safe and Useful Procedure in the Investigation of Patients with Intrathoracic Diseases
Author(s) -
Barraclough B. H.,
Richards H. J.,
Monk I.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1968.tb06280.x
Subject(s) - mediastinoscopy , medicine , thoracotomy , radiology , sarcoidosis , mediastinum , surgery , pathology
Mediastinoscopy was performed on 280 patients. The technique is described. A tissue diagnosis was made at mediastinoscopy in 82 cases (29·2%) and, of these, 34 were primary lung carcinomas, one was a secondary deposit from a Grawiiz tumour, 44 were sarcoid tumours and three lymphomas. Of 112 patients with carcinoma for whom the diagnosis was proved at mediastinoscopy, or for whom a negative mediastinoscopy result could be verified at thoracotomy, mediastinoscopy proved to be useful for 94 (83·9%). Of 48 patients with suspected sarcoid, mediastinoscopy gave a positive result for 44 (91·6%). There were only two complications in this series.