Thoracoscopic enucleation of esophageal leiomyoma

Pınar Varer,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.4649

Pınar Varer¹, İrfan Yalçınkaya², Cemal Asım Kutlu²

¹Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Kartal Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye
²Süreyyapaşa Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.4649

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Esophageal leiomyoma is the most common benign esophageal tumor. Thoracoscopic enucleation is currently a preferred approach for the most of these lesions. Although many reports are available in the English literature, no reports has been published in the Turkish literature so far. In this article, we reported a case of a 69-year-old female with a leiomyoma of the esophagus enucleated using videoassisted thoracic surgery.

Keywords : Esophagus; leiomyoma; video-assisted thoracic surgery

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