Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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Extended Posterolateral Thoracotomy for "Dumbbell" Mediastinal Tumor -Report of 3 Cases-

광범위후외측개흉술에 의한 "Dumbbell" 종격동종양수술지험 -3례 보고-

  • Oh, Bong-Suk (Department of Thoracic and dCardiovasular Surgery, Chonnam National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, In-Gwang (Department of Thoracic and dCardiovasular Surgery, Chonnam National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Su-Han (Department of Neurosurgery, Chonnam National University Hospital) ;
  • Jeong, Jae-Yoon (Department of orthopaedic surgery, Chonnam Naational University Hospital)
  • Published : 1995.11.01
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Abstract

Approximately 9.8% of neurogenic tumors of the mediastinum extend into the spinal column so that the composite neoplastic mass was dumbbell shaped. We experienced three patients confirmed by Dumbbell shaped mediastinal tumor radiologically and tried surgical resection by posterolateral thoracotomy only corpectomy and costotransversectomy was performed simultaneously in three patients and interbody fusion in two. In one patient the diagnosis was liposarcoma and in 1 neuroblastoma and in 1 neurilemmoma. then followed by radiation theraphy in case I and radiation and chemotheraphy in case II. All three cases showed satisfactory results clinically and radiographically.

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