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## Background: The development of a two-bladed spreadable videomediastinoscope in 1992 allowed increased exposure and bimanual dissection of mediastinal structures. Concurrent with technical progress in mediastinoscopy, neoadjuvant treatment of stage III lung cancer was introduced, and accuracy of pretreatment mediastinal staging became a topic at issue. In this setting, development of a videomediastinoscopic technique for complete mediastinal lymphadenectomy was the obvious thing to do. Methods: Video-assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy (VAMLA) dissection is guided by anatomical landmarks, very similar to open lymphadenectomy. It includes en bloc resection of the right and central compartments and dissection and lymphadenectomy of the left-sided compartments. In a preliminary case-control study of 40 patients, VAMLA technique was standardized and evaluated against open lymphadenectomy. A second study investigated 130 patients with resectable lung cancer and radiographically normal mediastinum who underwent VAMLA and consecutive lung resection with mediastinal reexploration. Results: VAMLA harvested significantly more nodes than open lymphadenectomy. With a mean duration of 5

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Author

Biruta Witte; Martin Hürtgen

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)