title: Successful treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the carina.
abstract: We successfully treated a 33-year-old man with mucoepidermoid carcinoma at the carina. Through preoperative spiral computed tomography with multiplanar and three-dimensional reconstructions, the lesion extended along the right main bronchus across the orifice of the right upper lobe. He underwent a carinal resection plus right upper lobectomy and reconstruction of the carina. He shows neither anastomotic complication nor recurrence of disease 1 year after surgery. Spiral computed tomography was used to evaluate the preoperative and postoperative state of the central airway.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kochi Municipal Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tatsumi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001980:Bronchi / Q000601:surgery; D018277:Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014132:Trachea / Q000601:surgery