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    Comparative study of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus open thymectomy for thymoma and myasthenia gravis
    (TERMEDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE LTD, 2018-01-01) Ersen, Ezel; Kilic, Burcu; Kara, Hasan Volkan; Iscan, Mehlika; Sarbay, Ismail; Demirkaya, Ahmet; Bakan, Selim; Tutuncu, Melih; Turna, Akif; Kaynak, Kamil
    Introduction: Thymectomy is the preferred standard treatment in younger non-thymoma patients with myasthenia gravis as well as in patients with early stage thymoma. Total thymectomy by median sternotomy has been the surgical approach since resection of the thymus with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Aim: To compare the clinical outcomes of VATS thymectomy with conventional open thymectomy for neoplastic and non-neoplastic thymic diseases. Material and methods: Forty patients underwent thymectomy between October 2012 and January 2016. Fifteen patients were male and 25 patients were female. The mean age was 40.3 +/- 17.7 years. Seventeen (55\%) patients underwent VATS thymectomy and 23 (45\%) patients underwent an open procedure. We retrospectively reviewed the data of the patients and compared these two techniques. Results: The mean tumor size was 5.17 +/- 3.2 cm in the thymoma group (VATS 2.5 +/- 2.4 cm vs. open access 4.7 +/- 3.7 cm). None of the patients experienced a myasthenic crisis. Conversion to thoracotomy was required in 1 patient in the VATS group due to bleeding from the right internal mammary artery