title: [Mortality rate after lung resection for bronchial carcinoma (author's transl)].
abstract: 1351 patients with lung resection were analyzed. Lethality during hospital treatment was 6.2%. 11 patients, who died during the 6 first weeks after the resection, had occult metastases. The causes of death among these 6.2% were pulmonary embolism (40.5%), insufficiency of the bronchial stump and following complications (17.9%), pneumonia (10.7%), cardiorespiratory failure (9.5%) and intraabdominal complications (8.3%). Improving these figures should begin with reducing the cases with pulmonary embolism.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality*; D002282:Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000401:mortality; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000401:mortality; D011660:Pulmonary Heart Disease / Q000401:mortality; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Analyse postoperativer Todersfälle nach Lungenresektionen wegen Bronchialkarzinom.