Neoadjuvant bronchoscopic intervention: Bridge to lung parenchyma sparing surgery

Lung Parenchyma Sparing Resection for Pulmonary Malignancies

Lung-sparing cancer surgery.

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/res Lung cancer is a major public health problem of growing importance throughout the world with frustrating long-term survival of under 15%. A majority of patients are unresectable at time of diagnosis, and even in those deemed operable, comorbid problems often limit efforts at successful resection. Procedures designed to preserve pulmonary functio...

Carcinoid tumours of the lung and the ‘PEPPS’ approach: evaluation of preoperative bronchoscopic tumour debulking as preparation for subsequent parenchyma-sparing surgery

BACKGROUND Preoperative bronchoscopic tumour ablation has been suggested as a beneficial treatment for bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumours, although data regarding its effects and long-term outcome are lacking. METHODS In our case-matched cohort study with 208 patients with bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumours we investigated the role of preoperative bronchoscopic interventions before subsequent...

Examination of Lung Parenchyma by Electron Microscopy

In this paper many of the principal struc­ture of the Moral Lung were studied with the help of Electron Microscopy. Detailed descrip­tion was given of Granular Pneumocytes, Membranous Pneumocytes, Macrophages, and Alveolar Capillaries. A discussion followed on the form and function of Granular Pneumo­cytes.  Acknowledgements  I am grateful to the Reza Shah Pahlavi Foundation for its generou...

parenchyma-sparing pancreatectomy for benign pancreatic neoplasms

context the current literature suggests that minimally invasive surgery is associated with faster recovery and less morbidity than open surgery. parenchyma-sparing pancreatectomy is minimally invasive surgery, including enucleation, inferior head pancreatectomy, spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy, and central pancreatectomy, combined pancreatectomy such as inferior head pancreatectomy plus...