Kaiser L R
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Chest Surg Clin N Am. 1994 Feb;4(1):185-94.
Surgery remains the cornerstone of therapy for thymoma whether the lesion is encapsulated or invasive. Video-assisted thoracic surgical techniques may be applicable in a number of patients with encapsulated thymoma for definitive therapy, especially when combined with a transcervical approach to achieve total thymectomy. Initial experience with a minimally invasive approach for resection of thymomas is described. The development of new instrumentation facilitates the performance of these procedures.
无论胸腺瘤病变是包膜型还是浸润型，手术仍然是其治疗的基石。电视辅助胸外科技术可能适用于许多包膜型胸腺瘤患者进行确定性治疗，特别是当与经颈入路联合以实现全胸腺切除术时。本文描述了采用微创方法切除胸腺瘤的初步经验。新器械的开发有助于这些手术的实施。
