Lung cancer is a leading cause of mortality and despite surgical resection a proportion of patients may develop metastatic spread. The detection of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) may allow for improved prediction of metastatic spread and survival. The current study evaluates the efficacy of the ScreenCell® filtration device, to capture, isolate and propagate CTCs in patients with primary lung ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the recent results of pneumonectomy (Pn) for primary lung cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-four patients undergoing Pn and 26 patients undergoing broncho-or angioplastic lobectomy (namely, parenchyma-sparing lung resection) from January 1993 to December 2004 were reviewed. The oncological outcome of Pn was analyzed by disease-free surviv...

Multifocal small, deep and subsolid lung nodules are increasingly discovered incidentally, often harboring early malignancies. In these cases, lung-preservation rather than major resection is the optimal strategy of choice. We retrospectively reviewed all treated by electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) transbronchial microwave ablation between March 2019 January 2022. Among these, we e...

BACKGROUND The number of elderly patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer is increasing. In this study, we assessed the usefulness of three-dimensional computed tomographicangiography (3D-CTA) for the detection of coronary disease in the elderly before surgical intervention for lung cancer. METHODS One hundred twenty patients admitted to our institution for lung cancer resection were enrol...

To quantify the in vivo magnitude and distribution of regional compensatory lung growth following extensive lung resection, we performed high-resolution computed tomography at 15- and 30-cmH(2)O transpulmonary pressures and measured air and tissue (including microvascular blood) volumes within and among lobes in six adult male foxhounds, before and after balanced 65% lung resection ( approximat...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) has become an important clinical tool to evaluate exercise capacity and predict outcome for patients with lung cancer being considered for lung resection. CPET can help in stratifying the surgical risk and identify those high-risk patients with lung resection. Preoperative screening using CPET allow the selection of appropriate therapeutic approach to dec...

Many inflammatory and other benign lesions of the lung may imitate carcinoma of the lung, both clinically and r&liologically. Often thoracotomy, and even pulmonary resection, is necessary to rule out the presence of a malignant lesion. One of the rarer lesions that has been mistaken for carcinoma of the lung is a localized infarct of the lung. Neville and Munz1 have reported two cases in which ...

In patients with lung cancer, the goals of limited resection procedures of the lung and major airways are to provide an adequate cancer operation while preserving functioning lung tissue. Discussed in this article are sleeve lobectomy, an alternative to pneumonectomy in patients with cancer in a lobar orifice; segmentectomy or wedge resection, an alternative to lobectomy in those with a periphe...

Recent new drugs, such as bevacizumab (Bev), also result in a remarkable response. However, the safety of major lung resection after the use of Bev remains controversial. Is it really dangerous to perform major lung resection after the use of Bev for a lung tumor? In this report, we describe two patients who underwent surgery safely without fragile pathological findings of the vessels.

Over the past 15 years, resection phthisiosurgery has gained recognition and is widely used in complex treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. However, with lung resection, various complications occur postoperative long-term period. Of these, most dangerous severe are pleural empyema, bronchial fistulas, exacerbations relapses tuberculosis process. According to domestic foreign authors, frequency ...