title: [Treatment of carinal resections for primary pulmonary carcinoma].
abstract: Threeteen patients of lung cancer of center type underwent carinal resections in our department from January 1985 to December 1996. There were 3 patients, T3N2M0 and 10 patients, T4N2M0. Palliative resections were performed for 3 patients and radical resections, for 10 patients. Carinal resection with right pneumonectomy was done in 3 patients, part carinal resection with right pneumonectomy 6 patients, part carinal resection with left pneumonectomy 1 case, and part carinal resection with right sleeve upper and middle lobectomy 3 patients. There were no operative complications and deaths. The 3-year survival rate was 54% and the 5-year survival rates, 30%. One patient has survived for 8 years. The satisfied results of operative therapy were followed when no lymph node metastesis in mediastinum and mass could be resected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D015996:Survival Rate