Factors affecting survival after bronchoplasty and broncho-angioplasty for lung cancer: single institutional review of 147 patients

Abstract

Both bronchoplasty and broncho-angioplasty are useful for the treatment of patients with lung cancer and should be performed in stage I or II. However, careful patient selection is mandatory in patients with advanced tumor stages and in those with nonsquamous cell carcinoma, especially if broncho-angioplasty is being considered.

Long-term outcome of hybrid surgical approach of video-assisted minithoracotomy sleeve lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer

“…Within the postoperative period, 12 (8.1%) patients had grade 3 or greater complications, which is comparable to the rate in the current literature [20][21][22][23][24]. In addition, we examined the DFS and OS of our patient cohort and found a 5-year OS of 54.2%, which is comparable to that of studies that used a thoracotomy approach, which ranged from 46 to 56% [20][21][22][23][24][25]. We can make only a limited comparison of our DFS outcome of 36.7% at 5 years with that in the current literature because there is only one study reporting on DFS data [25].…”

Pulmonary angioplastic procedure for lung cancer surgery

“…This report and others concluded that initial PA resection and reconstruction were technically demanding and time-consuming and were associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates. [5][6][7]10,13,14 There has also been additional concern of a possibly higher risk of tumor recurrence with consecutive limitation of survival. Owning to these concerns, many thoracic surgeons have been reluctant to adopt this angioplastic procedure.…”

“…Vogt-Moykopf and colleagues reported that tangential excision often resulted in occlusion of the vascular lumen. 10,13,14 If the tangential excisional part was small and PA reconstruction did not cause a narrow change, primary repair using a side-toside suture was performed. In our series, 18 of 21 patients who underwent wedge or tangential PA resection also had a proximal-end-to-distal-end anastomosis; only two cases underwent primary side-to-side suturing of the PA. We believe it is important to keep the PA lumen as wide as possible during the pulmonary angioplastic procedures.…”

Primary Adenocarcinoma of the Bronchus;Palliative Resection with Rigid Bronchoscopy,Followed Curative Pulmonary Sleeve Resection; Report of a Case

“…7) As we have reported previously, 8) bronchoplasty is useful for the treatment of patients with lung cancer, especially stage I or II patients. This case also underwent successful middle lobe sleeve lobectomy with checking the bronchial stumps several times.…”