Robotic Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis
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Procedure Outline
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Placement of Ports
- 3. Robot Docking
- 4. Pericardial Fat Clearing and Exposure of the Thymus and Left Phrenic Nerve
- 5. Left Phrenic Nerve Mobilization
- 6. Clear Tissue from Pericardium and Visualize Innominate Vein
- 7. Mobilization of the Innominate Vein and Division of Branches to the Thymus
- 8. Dissection of Thymic Poles
- 9. Dissection Along the Right Phrenic Nerve to the SVC
- 10. Removal of Specimen, Hemostasis, and Robot Undocking
- Further Mobilization of the Innominate Vein and Division of Branches to the Thymus
- Visualization of Right Phrenic Nerve and Freeing the Pleura off of it
- Continue Mobilization of the Innominate Vein and Division of Branches to the Thymus
