Vol 5, No 1 (January 01, 2016): Minimally Invasive Mediastinal Surgery (II)

Systematic Review

Minimally invasive versus open thymectomy: a systematic review of surgical techniques, patient demographics, and perioperative outcomes

Nicholas R. Hess, Inderpal S. Sarkaria, Arjun Pennathur, Ryan M. Levy, Neil A. Christie, James D. Luketich

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Pages: 1-9

Keynote Lecture Series

Minimally invasive mediastinal surgery

Franca M. A. Melfi, Olivia Fanucchi, Alfredo Mussi

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Pages: 10-17

Featured Articles

Multi-institutional European experience of robotic thymectomy for thymoma

Giuseppe Marulli, Jos Maessen, Franca Melfi, Thomas A. Schmid, Marlies Keijzers, Olivia Fanucchi, Florian Augustin, Giovanni M. Comacchio, Alfredo Mussi, Monique Hochstenbag, Federico Rea

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Pages: 18-25
Long term compensatory sweating results after sympathectomy for palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis

Cecilia Menna, Mohsen Ibrahim, Claudio Andreetti, Anna Maria Ciccone, Antonio D’Andrilli, Giulio Maurizi, Camilla Poggi, Erino Angelo Rendina

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Pages: 26-32

Perspective

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus sternotomy in thymectomy for thymoma and myasthenia gravis

Adnan Raza, Edwin Woo

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Pages: 33-37
Endoscopic thymectomy: a neurologist’s perspective

Roberta Ricciardi, Franca Melfi, Michelangelo Maestri, Anna De Rosa, Afroditi Petsa, Marco Lucchi, Alfredo Mussi

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Pages: 38-44
The role of adjuvant chemotherapy following resection of early stage thymoma

Masatsugu Hamaji

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Pages: 45-50

Art of Operative Techniques

Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy using 5-mm ports and carbon dioxide insufflation

René Horsleben Petersen

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Pages: 51-55

Masters of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Single-port thymectomy using a subxiphoid approach—surgical technique

Takashi Suda

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Pages: 56-58
Minimally invasive radical thymectomy

Gopal Singh, Jason Glotzbach, Joseph Costa, Lyall Gorenstein, Mark Ginsburg, Joshua Sonett

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Pages: 59-61
Robotic surgery for posterior mediastinal pathology

Brett L. Broussard, Benjamin Wei, Robert J. Cerfolio

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Pages: 62-64
Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy using 5-mm ports and LigaSure

René Horsleben Petersen

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Pages: 65-66
Video assisted transaxillary first rib resection in treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS)

H. Volkan Kara, Stafford S. Balderson, Betty C. Tong, Thomas A. D’Amico

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Pages: 67-69
Mediastinal giant parathyroid adenoma—a minimally invasive mediastinal surgical approach for an emergency presentation

Mira Pecheva, Kajan Mahendran, Jakub Kadlec, Matthew Lofthouse, Filip Van Tornout

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Pages: 70-73

ACS Patient Page

Myasthenia gravis

Christopher Harris, Beth Croce, Christopher Cao

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Pages: 74

Guest Editor:
Joel Dunning,
Middlesbrough, UK