[Surgical prophylactics of bronchopleural fistulas after pneumonectomy]

Vestn Khir Im I I Grek. 2010;169(5):83-7.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The authors made an analysis of the results of treatment of 924 patients with non-small cell lung cancer, operated in the volume of pneumonectomy during 1990-2007 years and developed a method of complete suturing the mediastinum wound in order to isolate the bronchus stump from the free pleural cavity and prevention of the development of a bronchopleural fistula.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Bronchial Fistula / etiology*
  • Bronchial Fistula / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pneumonectomy / adverse effects*
  • Pneumonectomy / methods*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Small Cell Lung Carcinoma / surgery*