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Robotic thymectomy: A surgical point of view.
Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery : MMCTS 2021 October 8
Robotic thymectomy is the most innovative surgical approach for treating disease of the anterior mediastinum. Robotic surgery offers low postoperative morbidity, faster recovery, shorter hospital stay, and better cosmetic results, without compromising surgical radicality. During the operation, the patient is placed in a supine position at the left edge of the operating table with the left hemithorax upward; the position is maintained with sandbags. The target area for the autodocking should be toward the jugulum. The first surgical step is to isolate the inferior thymic horns via the dissection that starts from the inferior portion of the mediastinal tissue and proceeds toward the right side, following the contralateral pleural reflection. Afterward, it is necessary to move toward the superior horns, following the phrenic nerve, the first landmark, to the innominate vein, our second landmark. Finally, we dissect the superior horns while searching for the thymic veins, which could appear atrophic, and clip the vessels to safely isolate the innominate vein. During this step, it is useful to use a retraction movement to progressively dissect the horns from the jugulum. The thymus gland is removed en bloc with the perithymus fat using an endoscopic bag inserted through the right port incision.
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