Pneumonectomy for Bronchial Carcinoma

Herniation of the heart after intrapericardial pneumonectomy for bronchial carcinoma.

Since the pioneer work of Graham and Singer (1933), Rienhoff (1933), and Crafoord (1938), great improvements have been made in the surgical technique for resection of bronchial carcinoma. Of major importance was the introduction by Allison (1946) of intrapericardial ligation of the pulmonary vessels. Besides inherent advantages due to the intrapericardial disposition of these vessels and conseq...

Contralateral pneumothorax after pneumonectomy for carcinoma.

Fortunately, contralateral pneumothorax occurs rarely after pneumonectomy. This complication was detected during the immediate postoperative period in four of 340 patients having pneumonectomy for carcinoma at the Ochsner Clinic from January 1942 through June 1958. To our knowledge delayed pneumothorax has not occurred in any of the remaining patients. This lends support to the impression that ...

Reoperation for bronchial carcinoma.

After a primary operation for bronchial carcinoma, 17 patients underwent reoperation for local recurrence or intrathoracic metastasis (nine squamous cell, five alveolar cell, and three adenocarcinomas). The average interval between the first and second operation was 23 months (range: six to 48 months). Twelve patients had a pneumonectomy after an initial ipsilateral lobectomy. Five patients und...

Comparison of different bronchial closure techniques following pneumonectomy in dogs

The comparison of the histologic healing and bronchopleural fistula (BPF) complications encountered with three different BS closure techniques (manual suture, stapler and manual suture plus tissue flab) after pneumonectomy in dogs was investigated for a one-month period. The dogs were separated into two groups: group I (GI) (n = 9) and group II (GII) (n = 9). Right and left pneumonectomies were...

Bronchial carcinoma.