Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy and Splanchnicectomy Thoracoscopic sympathectomy and splanchnicectomy are most often performed for socially disabling palmar or axillary hyperhidrosis. Less common indications include Raynaud’s syndrome and chronic pain. The procedure…
Transhiatal Esophagectomy In this procedure, the mediastinal dissection of the esophagus is done from below (through the esophageal hiatus during the laparotomy phase) and from above (through a left neck…
Thoracoscopic Surgery of the Esophagus This chapter describes two procedures: Thoracoscopic esophagomyotomy and esophageal mobilization for resection. These are used to illustrate the thoracoscopic appearance of the mediastinum and approach…
Esophageal Resection: Esophagogastrectomy and the Ivor Lewis Approach Lesions of the lower to middle third of the esophagus are approached through the chest and abdomen. The lower esophagus is easily…
Thoracic Outlet Decompression M. Victoria Gerken Phillip C. Camp Jr. First rib resection for thoracic outlet decompression remains a controversial solution to a complex problem. The term thoracic outlet syndrome…
Thoracoscopic Lobectomy or Segmentectomy Kemp H. Kernstine Sr. Thoracoscopic lobectomy or other anatomic thoracoscopic lung resections are performed as described for the other thoracoscopic procedures (see Chapter 27). Where we…
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 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 M. Victoria Gerken Phillip C. Camp Jr. In this chapter, the basic procedure of tube thoracostomy (chest tube placement) is…
