Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Stent Graft to Facilitate Aortic Resection During Pneumonectomy and Vertebrectomy for Locally Invasive Lung Cancer

Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Apr;101(4):1587-9. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.05.131.

Abstract

Endovascular stent graft placement has been used to facilitate resection of tumors invading the thoracic aorta. Here we describe the first use of an aortic endograft for preoperative protection of the thoracic descending aorta before left pneumonectomy for a primary lung cancer invading the thoracic spine and thoracic descending aorta.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Aged
  • Aorta, Thoracic / surgery
  • Back Pain / diagnosis
  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Endovascular Procedures / methods*
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Lung Neoplasms / surgery
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness / pathology
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Pneumonectomy / methods
  • Risk Assessment
  • Spinal Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Spinal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Stents*
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / pathology
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vascular Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Vascular Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Vascular Neoplasms / surgery