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KMID : 0364019950280010078
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Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1995 Volume.28 No. 1 p.78 ~ p.80
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Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Thymectomy
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Abstract
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We report the thoracoscopic resection of thymus and pericardial fat tissue in a patient who was in the setting oflate severe myasthenia gravis (Osserman's Group Ⅱ-C-2) and previous tracheostomy state. The patient was 33-year-old female. She had
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supported with mechanical ventilator for 88 days and suffered from recurrent pneumonia. Our first aim was to wean to wean her from mechanical ventilator. Traditional methods such as median sternotomy or transcervial thymectomy or trans-sternal
thymectomy were difficult because of the anticipating complications of mediastinitis or morbidity, especially chest pain, following thoracotomy.
We could wean her from the mechanical ventilator at postoperative 9 days. So, we concluded that video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy is a useful alternative tool in this case.
(Korean J Thoracic Cardiovas Surg 1995;28:78-80)
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