title: [Treatment of central-type lung cancer with intrapericardial pneumonectomy].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To summarize the clinical results of intrapericardial ligation of pulmonary vessels in the treatment of central-type lung cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study was employed in this study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From 1978 to 1997, 91 patients with central-type lung cancer underwent pneumonectomy by dealing with major pulmonary vessels inside the pericardium. The 1-, 3-, 5-year surival rates were 79. 0%, 37. 3%, 23. 8% respectively. Indications, operative techniques, complications and prognostic factors were discussed in this paper.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pneumonectomy with intrapericardial management of the pulmonary vessels is a safe and reliable procedure, which increases resection rate of lung cancer and improves the survival of patients with lung cancer . The prognostic factors for this technique are TNM staging , pathological types, resection site, postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery , General Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100853, P. R . China.
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authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhu
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authors.lastname: Liu
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authors.lastname: Cui
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authors.lastname: Wang
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authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun