[Postoperative and remote outcome of non small cell pulmonary carcinoma in patients over 70 years old].
There is a worldwide increase in the frequency of pulmonary carcinoma The only radical treatment at such patients is the operative one, but it is associated with a lot of complications.


METHODS
We presented 41 patients aged over 70 years old with non small cell pulmonary carcinoma who are performed pulmonary resection. The patients were staged as follows: stage IA - 5, stage IB - 7, stage IlIA - 9 patients. We performed 22 lobectomies, 4 bilobectomies and 15 pulmonectomies.


RESULTS
Analyzing all the results, we found 5 years survival at 29.2%, 3 years survival at 46.3% and one year survival at 78% of the operated patients. We found complication in the postoperative period at 15 of the patients; only one patient died (2.4%).


CONCLUSIONS
We consider, that the precisely selected patients at the age between 70-76 years old would not influence significantly the postoperative and long-term results at patients with non small carcinoma of the lungs.
Uchikov
A
A
Batashki
I
I
Paskalev
G
G
Murdzhev
K
K
Iacheva
S
S
Ganchevska
P
P
Gŭrova
A
A
D000368:Aged; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology