Successful pulmonary resection of lung cancer in a patient with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection: report of a case.
A rare case of the potentially grave combination of lung cancer and partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is described. PAPVC would cause many problems following major lung resection, even in a preoperatively asymptomatic patient, because of the inevitable development of right ventricular failure as a result of right ventricular volume overload caused by the left-to-right physiologic shunt. On the other hand, if a patient has primary lung cancer, anatomical resection should be done to achieve curative treatment. We successfully performed a left lower lobectomy for lung cancer in a patient with abnormal venous drainage in the left upper lobe, with simultaneous correction of a PAPVC.
Takei
Hidefumi
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Thoracic Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.
Suzuki
Kenji
K
Asamura
Hisao
H
Kondo
Haruhiko
H
Tsuchiya
Ryosuke
R
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D016121:Brachiocephalic Veins / Q000002:abnormalities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery