ABSTRACT
Enhancement of rate of the intrathoracic lymphadenopathy syndrome (ILS) revealing have caused a necessity to find out the informative, secure and miniinvasive method of its diagnosis. There was established, that sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of videothoracoscopic (VTS) biopsy of intrathoracic lymph nodes (ILN) have constituted, accordingly, 96.0, 98.1 and 97.1%, and of videoassisted thoracoscopy (VATS) - 93.8, 93.6 and 93.5%. Low frequency of intraoperative and postoperative complications (accordingly 4.4 and 7.7%), small intraoperative blood loss (29 ml), short duration of operative intervention (45 min), rapid rehabilitation of patients postoperatively (10.6 days) witnesses about expediency of application of a VTS biopsy and VATS as a safe and miniinvasive procedures in ILS.
