Video-assisted thoracic surgery of hydatid cysts of the lung in children
Becmeur, F.; Chaouachi, B.; Dhaoui, R.; Kaabar, N.; Popperova, N.; Bientz, J.; Sauvage, P.
Journal de Chirurgie 131(12): 541-543
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-7697 PMID: 7738124 Document Number: 429596
10 children between 3 and 9 years old, have been operated on for an echinococcosis cyst of the lung, by a thoracoscopic procedure. It was a vomited cyst in 6 cases, a pyopneumocyst in 1 case, and a jung noncomplicated and univesicular cyst in 3 cases. The surgical procedure is described. We brought into being the operative conditions such it is nowadays an excellent alternative to the classical thoracotomy.