[Video-assisted thoracic surgery in the management of XXXX ].

@entity1 @entity5 @entity2 @entity1737 @entity1514 @entity260 @entity764 @entity418 @entity130 @entity456
OBJECTIVE: To summarize short-term results of video-assisted thoracic surgery for 322 @entity1 with @entity764 in Beijing from October 1992 to October 1998 and discuss the role of thoracoscopy in the diagnosis and therapy of @entity1514 in China. METHODS: Three hundred and twenty-two @entity1 (273 @entity1 and 85 @entity1 ) underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery for spontaneous pneumothorax (113), @entity2 (83), solitary pulmonary nodules (52), @entity456 (19), mediastinal @entity5 (11), @entity1737 (5), @entity130 (10), @entity418 (7), benign esophageal diseases (11), and other indications (11). Data on thoracoscopic procedures, morbidity and mortality, conversion to open procedures were collected for all @entity1 . RESULTS: Three hundred and thirty-nine thoracoscopic procedures were performed in 322 @entity1 . These procedures included blebectomy and pleurodesis (121), wedge resections of pulmonary nodules (57), lobectomy and pneumonectomy (48), pleural biopsies and pleurodesis (52), excision of mediastinal mass (11), thymectomy (5), esophagectomy (6), and other procedures (39). Conversion to thoracotomy was required in 9 @entity1 (0.28%). The overall incidence of @entity260 was 7.5% (24/322). Two @entity1 died postoperatively. CONCLUSIONS: Video-assisted thoracic surgery is a safe and effective technique in selected @entity1 with @entity764 . The results in this group were similar to those reported previously in North American.
