title: [Surgical treatment of middle lobe carcinoma of the lung].
abstract: From February 1965 to April 1993, 88 patients with middle lobe carcinoma of the lung were treated surgically. It constituted 7.7% of the total patients of operated lung cancer in our hospital. Clinical symptoms were mainly fever, cough, bloody-sputum and chest pain. 84 of 88 patients were treated by wedge resection, lobectomy and pneumonectomy. Exploration was preformed in 4 patients. The 1, 3, 5 and 10-year survival rates of the 78 patients followed up were 87.18%, 43.08%, 38.18% and 24.13% respectively. It related to four clinical features of middle lobe cancer of the lung were treated surgically is discussed.
authors.affiliation: General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing.
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Y E
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy