caa a22 4500 475754247 CHVBK 20180406123533.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s005950070016 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s005950070016 Videothoracoscopic Surgery for Thoracic Neurogenic Tumors: A 7-Year Experience [Elektronische Daten] [Noboru Sakumoto, Satoshi Inafuku, Hidemasa Shimoji, Ken Nomura, Kaneatsu Honma, Tsutomu Kawabata, Morio Ohta, Masayuki Kuniyoshi, Kiyoshi Ishikawa, Keiichiro Genka] While videothoracoscopic surgery has rapidly become accepted as an effective method of performing minimally invasive surgery, the advantages and feasibility of using this surgical technique for the treat-ment of neurogenic tumors of the thorax are not yet well defined. Between August 1992 and May 1999, 15 solitary thoracic neurogenic tumors were surgically excised using videothoracoscopic surgery in our hospital. The patients comprised six women and nine men, with a mean age of 38.1 years. The mean tumor size was 3.5 cm, with a range of 1.5-6.5 cm and included 12 schwannomas, 2 ganglioneuromas, and 1 neurofibroma. Among the 15 patients, 4 were treated using videothoracoscopic surgery plus minithoracotomy. The only complication associated with videothoracoscopic surgery was hoarseness which developed in one pa-tient. Our experience indicates that videothoracoscopic surgery is a useful alternative to facilitate the excision of small thoracic neurogenic tumors. Springer-Verlag, 2000 Key words Videothoracoscopic surgery nationallicence Minithoracotomy nationallicence Thoracic neurogenic tumor nationallicence Sakumoto Noboru Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Inafuku Satoshi Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Shimoji Hidemasa Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Nomura Ken Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Honma Kaneatsu Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Kawabata Tsutomu Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Ohta Morio Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Kuniyoshi Masayuki Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Ishikawa Kiyoshi Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Genka Keiichiro Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s005950070016 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s005950070016 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sakumoto Noboru Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Inafuku Satoshi Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shimoji Hidemasa Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nomura Ken Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Honma Kaneatsu Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kawabata Tsutomu Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ohta Morio Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kuniyoshi Masayuki Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ishikawa Kiyoshi Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Genka Keiichiro Department of Surgery, National Okinawa Hospital, 3-20-14 Ganeko, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa 901-2214, Japan, JP aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer