Preoperative saline-filled computed tomography thoracography for awake video-assisted thoracic surgery: report of three cases

Surgery Today ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 1579-1582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuaki Watanabe ◽  
Masafumi Noda ◽  
Toshimasa Okazaki ◽  
Hisakatsu Tsukidate ◽  
Kota Sato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Thoracic Surgery ◽  
Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery ◽  
Video Assisted

Recurrent sternal thymoma after thymectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 574-576
Author(s):  
Shunichiro Matsuoka ◽  
Ryoichi Kondo ◽  
Keiko Ishii
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Thoracic Surgery ◽  
Bone Destruction ◽  
Anterior Chest Wall ◽  
Emission Tomography ◽  
Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery ◽  
Video Assisted ◽  
Positron Emission ◽  
Sternal Tumor ◽  
Growing Mass

An 81-year-old man underwent thymectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery for a mediastinal tumor. The pathological diagnosis was Masaoka stage II type B3 thymoma. Thirty-six months later, he presented with a growing mass on his anterior chest wall. Computed tomography showed a lobulated tumor in the sternum with bone destruction. Positron-emission tomography-computed tomography showed a maximal standardized uptake of 12.3 in the tumor. Core needle biopsy confirmed a metastatic sternal tumor from a type B3 thymoma. We partially resected the sternum and reconstructed the defect using an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene sheet. The patient has remained recurrence-free for 3 years after the second surgery.

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