title: [Experience of surgical treatment of primary peripheral pulmonary cancer and of tumoral metastases by video-assisted thoracoscopy].
abstract: In clinic of thoracic surgery were operated on 2108 patients for various forms of pulmonary cancer, 218 (10.3%) of them--using videothoracoscopy (VTHS). In 141 (64.7%) patients the method of VTHS was applied for diagnostical purposes and in 55 (25.2%)--for treatment. Histological investigations of excised specimen showed planocellular cancer in 38 patients, adenocarcinoma--in 9, nonsmall cell carcinoma--in 6, anaplastic cancer--in 2. The operation cost while applying VTHS had constituted at average 648.65 US dollars, of thoracotomy--1283.5 US dollars.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Peliukhovskiĭ
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Bashtan
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dyshkevich
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Chernobaĭ
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Korneev
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Litvinenko
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*