Aortic arch resection under temporary bypass grafting for advanced thymic cancer.
Extensive surgery for malignant disease requiring cardiopulmonary bypass may cause postoperative immunosuppression. We conducted resection of the aortic arch and total arch replacement under temporary bypass grafting in a patient with advanced thymic cancer invading the aortic arch. No major postoperative complications such as brain damage or paraplegia occurred. Temporary bypass grafting is thus applicable in extensive surgery for malignant disease invading the aortic arch.
Takahashi
Tsuyoshi
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First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan.
Suzuki
Kazuya
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Ito
Yasushi
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Takinami
Makoto
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Yamashita
Katsushi
K
Kazui
Teruhisa
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D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D016121:Brachiocephalic Veins / Q000473:pathology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*