Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, abstract number.
Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, abstract number.
Difficult-to-treat mediastinal problems
Symposium Chairs: Dragan R. Subotic (Beograd, Republic of Serbia), Nicolas Girard (Bron, France)
Aims: To describe the differences between thymectomy and thymomectomy, explain why patients with thymoma-myasthaenia gravis may require complete thymic removal, describe the advantages of the new video-assisted approach, discuss new technologies of sternal replacement after the removal of giant tumours and present the sequence of the diagnostic and therapeutic steps that are taken when there is a medical urgency involving patients with mediastinitis.
Target audience: Pulmonologists, thoracic oncologists, and surgeons.