Surgery in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Lung Carcinoma

Ra, Smith

doi:10.1136/thx.18.1.21

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“…Some studies are in this regard very convincing; however, the final results of the treatment of lung cancer and the number of exploratory thoracotomies in centres where mediastinoscopy is not used do not seem to be inferior (Abbey Smith, 1963). In the presented material 410 patients were mediastinoscoped for lung cancer.…”

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confidence: 82%

Experience with mediastinoscopy

Tl¹,

Zasłonka²,

Lukiański³

1972

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Experience with mediastinoscopy

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Zasłonka²,

Lukiański³

1972

Thorax

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“…Secondly, where surgery has only managed an incomplete removal of the tumour, the results are often much better than had ben expected. Abbey Smith (1963) reports a 10% five year survival rate following non-curative operations, and this has led him to attempt resection in every case that, after careful preoperative clinical assessment, has been deemed suitable for operation. By so doing, he is able to report an operability rate of 96%, yet he estimates that only one in every eight patients seen was operated on, and there must ,be almost an equal number that never get referred to a surgeon.…”

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