Mediastinoscopy: A Safe and Useful Procedure in the Investigation of Patients with Intrathoracic Diseases
The Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery(1971)
Abstract
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.
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