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Marcello Migliore1, Alessandra Criscione1, Marco Nardini1, Francesco Patti2, Francesco Borrata1.
Abstract
Keywords: 2–5 days). Decrease of symptoms was obtained in the entire group after a mean follow up of 79 months (range; 45–275 minutes). The length of hospitalization was 3 days (range; 8–150 months); Abstract: In the last 30 years the introduction of VATS in the surgical practice made possible to perform a wide range of thoracic operations including thymectomy. We describe our single incision video-assisted transcervical thymectomy (VATT) for non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis and/or small (<2 cm) intrathymic thymoma in 13 patients. The mean operation time was of 164 minutes (range; Uniportal surgery; and two patients had a complete stable remission. In conclusion; myasthenia gravis; non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis; single incision extended transcervical thymectomy (TT) is a safe and successful procedure which allows a complete excision of the anterior mediastinal fat; thymectomy; transcervical
Year: 2017 PMID: 29302430 PMCID: PMC5676154 DOI: 10.21037/jovs.2017.10.06
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Vis Surg ISSN: 2221-2965