title: [Application of cardiac vascular plasty in the surgical treatment of lung cancer].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To evaluate the value of cardiac vascular plasty in the surgical treatment of lung cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and thirty-one cases of cardiac vascular plasty operation in the surgical treatment of lung cancer from 1988 to 2001 in our hospital was reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In these cases, 17 patients underwent superior vena caval ( SVC) replacement or partial excision of SVC, one patient underwent left innominate vein-right atrium by pass operation, 86 patients underwent pulmonary artery plasty operation or wedge excision of pulmonary artery, and 27 patients underwent partial left atrium excision with no hoptital death and the result of follow-up was good.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cardiac vascular plasty could made the lung cancer operation safely and have higher resection rate. Using the technique we could maximally reserve the lung function and increase the survival rate and the life quality of patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery , Shandong Province Hospital, Jinan, Shandong 250021, P . R. China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang