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ISMICS 2024 Annual Meeting

29 May - 1 June, 2024 | Athens, Greece

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PC.137

Subxiphoid Single-port Thymectomy: Eight-year Experience In Single Center

Poster Presenter

Do Kyun Kang

Part of Topic

Global

BACKGROUND

  • Subxiphoid single-port thymectomy has several advantages compared with conventional approaches in post-operative pain and cosmetic results.

  • However periopeartive outcomes are still lacking. We would like to present our 8-year experience of subxiphoid single-port thymectomy.

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METHODS

  •  Duration: August 2014 – December 2022

  •  All consecutive 71 patients undergoing subxiphoid single-port thymectomy.

  •  We reviewed retrospectively the medical records of these patients.

 

SURGICAL PROCEDURE

  •  Instruments

  •   X-small Alexis wound retractor (Applied Medical, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA)

  •   5mm-30° video thoracoscope (Karl Storz endoscope; Karl Storz, Tuttlingen, Germany)

  •   5mm-endoscopic grasper

  •   Endoscopic Energy device

  •   Kent retractor & wire

  •  General anesthesia

  •  Double lumen endotracheal tube

  •  Position: supine

  •  Subxiphoidal incision (about 4-5cm, veritcal)

  •  Resection of the xiphoid process

  •  Blunt dissection of the retrosternal space by finger

  •  Opening of the mediastinal pleura bilaterally

  •  Wiring below the sternum through the 3rd of 4th ICS horizontally

  •  Retraction of wire using Kent retractor for securing the retrosternal space

  •  Thymectomy under one-lung ventlation (Right <-> Left)

 
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