[Complications of lung surgery in the aged: relapsing postresection atelectasis (author's transl)].
The authors describe one case of relapsing postoperative atelectasis occurring with considerable severity after an upper left lobectomy for malignancy in a man of 68. Said complication recurred no fewer than six times during a hospital stay of 44 days and constituted a major threat to the good outcome of surgery. The patient was finally discharged in good conditions, and a later recheck revealed no important alterations in the surviving lower left lobe.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence
Complicanze della chirurgia polmonare nell'anziano: l'atelettasia recidivante postresezionale.