title: Right lower lobe autotransplantation for locally advanced central lung cancer.
abstract: A 44-year-old man with locally advanced central lung cancer was treated by right lower lobe lung autotransplantation after pneumonectomy using an extracellular phosphate-buffered solution for cold lung preservation. The advantage of the ex vivo operation made it possible to perform safe and definitive cancer resection without massive bleeding. Cold lung preservation brought some advantages, such as reducing the risk of ischemia-reperfusion injury compared with warm ischemia and allowing enough time to achieve microscopically negative margins. The patient returned to normal life with minimum loss of pulmonary reserve and no recurrence of lung cancer for 6 months.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Yui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. Electronic address: m-sato@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Masami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hoshikawa
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Aya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Goichi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yotsumoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Imoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous