title: Chest wall resection and reconstruction via a muscle-sparing minithoracotomy for lung cancer.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Virginia K. Crosson Cancer Center, St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, California, USA.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Campo
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Roethe
authors.forename: V W
authors.initials: VW
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods*