Cervical mediastinoscopy is an invasive staging method used for staging the superior and middle mediastinum.
Indications:
Lymph nodes or masses in the middle mediastinum of unknown origin (sarcoidosis, lymphoma)
Mediastinal staging in patients with NSCLC.
However, because PET scans have a high NPV of up to 93% in primary mediastinal staging in patients with NSCLC, cervical mediastinoscopy can nowadays be omitted in some circumstances (peripheral tumor, N0 on PET and CT scan)
Cervical mediastinoscopy is performed under general anesthesia
confirmation of downstaging of mediastinal nodes (N2, N3) is a very important prognostic factor after induction therapy
Although PET scans have high accuracy in the primary staging of the mediastinum, their accuracy is much lower in the restaging of the mediastinum after induction therapy
Blunt dissection is started on the left side of the trachea. This region was usually not extensively dissected at the previous mediastinoscopy and thus contained less fibrosis.
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