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November 9, 2005
First multimedia article online

The first article with multimedia attachment on the GMS Portal is named "Systematic Video-Assisted Mediastinoscopic Lymphadenectomy (VAMLA)". The article written by Martin Hürtgen et al. is published within the current volume of GMS Thoracic Surgical Science and includes several video sequences which show several phases of a video assisted mediastinoscopy. Thus the article makes consequent use of the advantages of the electronic medium which expand the authors' illustration facilities implying pictures, movies, sounds, and complete databases. The article can be found here. To view the movie, please scroll down to the bottom of the document and open the attachment through double clicking. Please make sure you have installed a valid MPEG player.