Mediastinal anatomical landmarks, their variants and tips for video‑assisted thoracoscopic navigation during oesophageal extirpation

• Main Authors: Dydykin, Sergey, Paulsen, Friedrich, Khorobykh, Tatyana, Mishchenko, Natalya, Kapitonova, Marina, Gupalo, Sergey, Bogoyavlenskaya, Tatyana, Agadzhanov, Vadim, Salikhov, Pashad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l. 2022
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38414/1/Mediastinal%20anatomical%20-%20Copy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38414/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34426859/

Purpose There is no systematic description of primary anatomical landmarks that allow a surgeon to reliably and safely navigate the superior and posterior mediastinum’s fat tissue spaces near large vessels and nerves during video-assisted endothoracoscopic interventions in the prone position of a pa...