Survival and postoperative complications after extended surgery for non-small-cell lung cancer
โ Scribed by Ken Kodama; Masahiko Higashiyama; Hideoki Yokouchi; Koji Takami; Takushi Yasuda; Toshiyuki Kabuto
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- Japanese
- Weight
- 554 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1863-6705
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Fifty-seven stage I11 lung cancer patients underwent radiochemotherapy and subsequent surgery. Forty radical (R-), six non-radical, and eleven exploratory operations were performed. Pneumonia (five cases), pulmonary insufficiency (one case), bronchial fistula (one case) were the major non-fatal comp
The charts of 62 patients with primary lung cancer who underwent a pneumonectomy at our department from 1979 through 1992 were reviewed for the evaluation of postoperative morbidity and mortality. The 30-day mortality was 3/62 or 4.8%. Postoperative complication occurred in 37 of 62 patients (60%).