The use of videopericardioscopy for the lung cancer patient-a case report

Abstract

Videopericardioscopy was successfully performed transthoracically to clarify the resectability in a patient with pulmonary adenocarcinoma in whom the hilar metastatic lesions appeared to directly invade into the intrapericardial space on chest CT.
Recently, multimodality treatment has been attempted for stage III B non-small cell lung cancer. Videopericardioscopy is thought to be a useful diagnostic tool for staging of lung cancer patients in whom direct invasion of a huge hilar mass into intrapericardial great vessels is suspected on chest CT.