Surgical therapy of pulmonary arterial aneurysms in Behçet's syndrome.
Two patients with Behçet's syndrome were operated for exsanguinating pulmonary artery aneurysm into a bronchus. Lower lobectomy was performed in the first patient. He died of hypoxia and sepsis on the 8th postoperative day. Pneumonectomy was undertaken in the second patient, who is well 30 months after the operation.
Tüzün
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Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Faculty, Turkey.
Hamuryudan
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V
Yildirim
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S
Beşirli
K
K
Yörük
Y
Y
Yurdakul
S
S
Yazici
H
H
D000328:Adult; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011651:Pulmonary Artery