HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Personal Folders Download to citation manager Author home page(s): Biruta Witte Permission Requests Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Hürtgen, M. Articles by Witte, B. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Hürtgen, M. Articles by Witte, B. Related Collections Lung - cancer Mediastinum History

Letters to the Editor

History of extended cervical mediastinoscopy

Katholisches Klinikum Koblenz – Brüderhaus, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kardinal-Krementz-Str. 1-5, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany

Received 30 December 2008; accepted 7 January 2009.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 261 496 6489; fax: +49 261 496 6469. (Email: martinhuertgen@yahoo.de; m.huertgen@kk-koblenz.de).

Key Words: Extended cervical mediastinoscopy • Staging • History

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

We appreciate and read with great interest the article by Call et al. [1] about their extensive experience with extended mediastinoscopy. We fully support their conclusion. In our personal experience with now 108 cases extended mediastinoscopy revealed N2 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

This article has been cited by other articles:

				S. Call, R. Rami-Porta, and J. Belda-Sanchis Reply to Hurtgen and Witte Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg., April 1, 2009; 35(4): 745 - 745. [Full Text] [PDF]