An Anterior Surgical Approach to Upper Thoracic Spine.
- Author:
Sang Jin KIM
1
;
Yong Tae KWAK
;
Sang Keun PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Neurosurgery, Inje University College of Medicine, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Upper thoracic spine;
Tanssternal biclavicular approach
- MeSH:
Humans;
Middle Aged;
Muscles;
Spine*;
Thoracic Vertebrae
- From:Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
1994;23(2):242-247
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Anterior exposure to the upper two thoracic vertebrae is technically difficult with transcervical approach. The authors used a transstermal biclavicular approach to the T1 metastatic adenocarcinome in a 47 year old patient. The advantages of this approach are that : 1) it levels the insertion of the sternocleidomastoid muscles intact and prevents the complication of respiratory problem, 2) it gives most wide surgical field among the other similar approaches, and 3) this procedure is not transpleural but transmediastinal approach.
