Right and Left Pneumonectomy
Right and Left Pneumonectomy M. Victoria Gerken Phillip C. Camp Jr. Pneumonectomy is most commonly performed for carcinoma of the lung or for removal of trapped and necrotic lung after…
Thoracoscopy, Thoracoscopic Wedge Resection
Thoracoscopy, Thoracoscopic Wedge Resection Kemp H. Kernstine Sr. Athoracotomy incision is traumatic and painful and frequently leaves the patient with a cosmetically unappealing scar. Two percent of thoracotomy patients have…
Tube Thoracostomy, Thoracotomy, Partial Pulmonary (Wedge) Resection, and Pleural Abrasion
Tube Thoracostomy, Thoracotomy, Partial Pulmonary (Wedge) Resection, and Pleural Abrasion M. Victoria Gerken Phillip C. Camp Jr. In this chapter, the basic procedure of tube thoracostomy (chest tube placement) is…
Bronchoscopy
Bronchoscopy M. Victoria Gerken Phillip C. Camp Jr. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy is frequently performed for diagnosis and for management of secretions. This chapter describes how to access various segments of the…
Introduction
Introduction Bronchoscopy (Chapter 25) continues the discussion of the anatomy of the tracheobronchial tree begun in Chapters 2 and 3 and introduces the segmental anatomy of the lungs. Following this,…
Pericardial Window
Pericardial Window This procedure is performed for the treatment of pericardial effusions. The most common indication is malignancy. Two approaches are described here—the open subxiphoid approach and the thoracoscopic approach….
Median Sternotomy and Thymectomy
Median Sternotomy and Thymectomy M. Victoria Gerken Phillip C. Camp Jr. SCORE™, the Surgical Council on Resident Education, classified “Excision of mediastinal tumor” as a “COMPLEX” procedure. STEPS IN PROCEDURE…
Mediastinoscopy and Mediastinotomy
Mediastinoscopy and Mediastinotomy M. Victoria Gerken Phillip C. Camp Jr. The surgeon may occasionally need to surgically evaluate mediastinal lymph nodes. This may be done for the diagnosis of an…
Introduction
Introduction The mediastinum is the “thoracic space” between the two pleural sacs, the root word originally meaning septum. The mediastinum extends from the thoracic inlet cephalad to the superior surface…
