A new approach for bronchoplastic procedures in the treatment of bronchial carcinoid tumors.
Usually patients with typical carcinoid tumors originating in a segmental bronchus undergo segmentectomy with or without a bronchoplastic procedure. We have performed only sleeve resection of the bronchus for a bronchial carcinoid tumor located in the left basal bronchus thus preserving the lung tissue. This was made possible by transecting and reanastomosing the pulmonary artery.
Kawahara
K
K
Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan.
Shiraishi
T
T
Okabayashi
K
K
Iwasaki
A
A
Kusano
T
T
Yamashita
J
J
Shirakusa
T
T
D000368:Aged; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*