title: Completion pneumonectomy: experience with 47 cases.
abstract: From 1982 through March 1994, fourty-seven patients underwent completion pneumonectomy for a reappearing lung cancer, lung metastases, late complications, benign lung diseases, and early complication of bronchial or pulmonary artery sleeve resections. Intraoperative bleeding was higher than in standard pneumonectomy; there was one intraoperative mortality (2.3%). Operative mortality was 14.9% overall but was 3.6% in completion pneumonectomy for lung cancer, 20% for late complications and benign disease, and 57% for the treatment of early complications of sleeve resections. Three and five-year survival in patients with lung cancer who survived the operation was 43.8% and 28.7% according to the Kaplan-Meier method; no significant difference in long-term survival was present between patients with a second primary lung cancer or recurrence. Completion pneumonectomy is indicated in reappearing lung cancer and should be considered in benign disease when a less invasive procedure is not available. Completion pneumonectomy for the treatment of early complications of bronchial or pulmonary artery sleeve resections has a very high mortality but no alternative is available.
authors.affiliation: Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Civile Maggiore Hospital, Verona, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Terzi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Furlan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Terrini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Magnanelli
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000401:mortality; D012086:Reoperation; D015996:Survival Rate