[Experience of surgical treatment of primary peripheral pulmonary cancer and of tumoral metastases by video-assisted thoracoscopy].

Autor: Peliukhovskiĭ SV, Bashtan VP, Dyshkevich V, Chernobaĭ AV, Korneev OV, Litvinenko VE
Jazyk: ruština
Zdroj: Klinichna khirurhiia [Klin Khir] 2004 Feb (2), pp. 29-30.
Abstrakt: In clinic of thoracic surgery were operated on 2108 patients for various forms of pulmonary cancer, 218 (10.3%) of them--using videothoracoscopy (VTHS). In 141 (64.7%) patients the method of VTHS was applied for diagnostical purposes and in 55 (25.2%)--for treatment. Histological investigations of excised specimen showed planocellular cancer in 38 patients, adenocarcinoma--in 9, nonsmall cell carcinoma--in 6, anaplastic cancer--in 2. The operation cost while applying VTHS had constituted at average 648.65 US dollars, of thoracotomy--1283.5 US dollars.
Databáze: MEDLINE