caa a22 4500 475754271 CHVBK 20180406123533.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s005950070025 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s005950070025 Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Management of an Anterior Mediastinal Teratoma: Report of a Case [Elektronische Daten] [Yu-Jen Cheng, Meei-Feng Huang, Ku-Bow Tsai] Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a newly developed technique, the advantages of which mainly benefit the patient. Its feasibility and indications have been described widely, but to the best of our knowledge no report of the successful VATS management of a large mediastinal teratoma has ever been documented. When such a tumor is encountered, conversion to thoracotomy would usually be carried out. We report our experience of removing a large teratoma, 8 × 7 × 11 cm in size, from the anterior mediastinum, employing VATS and utilizing only four small intercostal incisions without spreading the ribs. Springer-Verlag, 2000 Key words Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery nationallicence Thoracoscopy nationallicence Teratoma nationallicence Cheng Yu-Jen Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and aut Huang Meei-Feng Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and aut Tsai Ku-Bow Department of Pathology, Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital, 100 Shih-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan, TW aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s005950070025 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s005950070025 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cheng Yu-Jen Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Huang Meei-Feng Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tsai Ku-Bow Department of Pathology, Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital, 100 Shih-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan, TW aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer