The incidence of hoarseness after mediastinoscopy and outcome of video-assisted versus conventional mediastinoscopy in lung cancer staging

• Published in: Acta chirurgica belgica 2016-02, Vol.116 (1), p.23-29
• Main Authors: Sayar, Adnan, Çitak, Necati, Büyükkale, Songül, Metin, Muzaffer, Kök, Abdulaziz, Çelikten, Alper, Gürses, Atilla
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Age Distribution; Aged; Analysis of Variance; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - diagnosis; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - pathology; Complications; Databases, Factual; Female; Follow-Up Studies; hoarseness; Hoarseness - epidemiology; Hoarseness - etiology; Humans; Incidence; lung cancer; Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis; Lung Neoplasms - pathology; Male; mediastinoscopy; Mediastinoscopy - adverse effects; Mediastinoscopy - methods; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Neoplasm Staging; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Sex Distribution; staging; Treatment Outcome; Video-Assisted Surgery - adverse effects; Video-Assisted Surgery - methods
• ISSN: 0001-5458
• DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2015.1136483

Objectives Theoretically, video-assisted mediastinoscopy (VM) should provide a decrease in the incidence of hoarseness in comparison with conventional mediastinoscopy (CM). Methods An investigation of 448 patients with the NSCLC who underwent mediastinoscopy (n = 261 VM, n = 187 CM) between 2006 and 2010. Results With VM, the mean number of sampled LNs and of stations per case were both significantly higher (n = 7.91 ± 1.97 and n = 4.29 ± 0.81) than they were for CM (n = 6.65 ± 1.79 and n = 4.14 ± 0.84) (p