Muscle-sparing anterior thoracotomy for one-stage bilateral lung volume reduction operation.
Bilateral lung volume reduction produces significant clinical and physiologic improvement in selected patients with end-stage emphysema. Current surgical approaches consist of median sternotomy and video-assisted thoracoscopy. This report describes an alternate technique of single-stage, bilateral lung volume reduction using muscle-sparing anterior thoracotomy in 18 patients with severe lung emphysema.
de Perrot
M
M
Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.
Licker
M
M
Spiliopoulos
A
A
D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D010369:Pectoralis Muscles; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011656:Pulmonary Emphysema / Q000601:surgery*; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery*