OBJECTIVES Patients treated surgically for lung cancer can develop either a metachronous cancer or a recurrence. The appearance of a new cancer on the remaining lung after a pneumonectomy poses unique treatment problems, and surgery is often considered contraindicated. We report on the outcome of resections for lung cancer after pneumonectomy performed for lung cancer. METHODS We reviewed the...

Postpneumonectomy pulmonary oedema (PPO) complicates a significant number of thoracic surgical procedures involving lung resection and in its extreme form is indistinguishable from the acute respiratory distress syndrome. This study investigated the possibility that ischaemia-reperfusion (I-R) injury contributes to PPO via the production of damaging reactive oxygen species. In a prospective, ob...

Background Recently, many surgeons have chosen sublobar resection for the curative treatment of lung tumors with ground-glass opacity, which is a hallmark of lepidic lung cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the oncological results of sublobar resection for non-lepidic lung cancer in comparison with lobectomy. Methods We conducted a retrospective chart review of 328 patients with...

The impact of major lung resections on myocardial function has not been well-investigated. We aimed to identify this impact through the use of speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) to evaluate the right and left ventricular myocardial function in patients who underwent lung resections.Thirty patients who had lung resections were recruited for this study. Ten patients who underwent pneumonecto...

Pulmonary resection is the first therapeutic option of various lung pathologies, among which localized non-microcytic bronchogenic carcinoma is the most prevalent. Due to the fact that many patients who develop non-microcytic bronchogenic carcinoma present significant comorbidity, lung resection is associated with an increased risk (between 2 and 5%) of perioperative death (Little et al., 2005)...

BACKGROUNDS/AIMS Aggressive surgical resection for hepatic metastasis is validated, however, concomitant liver and lung metastasis in colorectal cancer patients is equivocal. METHODS Clinicopathologic data from January 2008 through December 2012 were retrospectively reviewed in 234 patients with colorectal cancer with concomitant liver and lung metastasis. Clinicopathologic factors and surviv...

BACKGROUND Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an uncommon malignant tumor, and its synchronous occurrence with primary lung cancer is extremely rare. Here, we report the first surgical case of synchronous MPM and contralateral lung adenocarcinoma. Extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) combined with surgery for contralateral lung cancer may not be tolerated, and a lung-sparing procedure includin...

Background: Stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC) exhibits heterogeneous characteristics in tumor extent and biology. The overall survival of patients with metastatic CRC has improved the development multimodal treatments new chemotherapeutic drugs.Current Concepts: Resection is performed for liver, lung, or peritoneal metastases. Conversion surgeries to resect oligometastatic lesions have been deve...

OBJECTIVE To identify preoperative characteristics associated with complete surgical resection of primary malignant mediastinal tumors. METHODS Between 1996 and 2006, 42 patients with primary malignant mediastinal tumors were submitted to surgery with curative intent at a single facility. Patient charts were reviewed in order to collect data related to demographics, clinical manifestation, ch...