Chest wall resection and reconstruction via a muscle-sparing minithoracotomy for lung cancer.
Five per cent of lung cancers involve the parietal pleura and chest wall. En bloc resections improve survival. Lung resections via muscle-sparing chest incisions have minimized complications and hospital stay. We present a case in which we performed an en bloc lobectomy with chest wall resection and reconstruction through a muscle sparing minithoracotomy in a 48-year-old woman. She was discharged in the fourth postoperative day and remains tumor free and asymptomatic after 4 years.
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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Virginia K. Crosson Cancer Center, St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, California, USA.
Roethe
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Lee
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods*