Extrapleural Pneumonectomy
Extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma
... Extrapleural pneumonectomy was introduced in the 1940s for the treatment of extensive infections of the lung and pleural ...the extrapleural pneumo- nectomy technique has been modified and applied to ...
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Clinical and pathological features of three-year survivors of malignant pleural mesothelioma following extrapleural pneumonectomy,
... of extrapleural pneumonectomy in this ...pleural pneumonectomy and those with more minimal volume getting pleurectomy, both of which will lead to macroscopic complete resection and both of which in ...
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The evolution of the diminishing role of extrapleural pneumonectomy in the surgical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma
... Historically, extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) has been the standard procedure, carrying with it a cost of significant morbidity and impact on quality of life that has raised questions regarding its routine ...
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En bloc Extended Total Thymectomy and Extrapleural Pneumonectomy in Masaoka stage IVA Thymomas
... Background: Surgical excision is the primary treatment for a thymoma. However, for advanced thymoma that extends to within the thoracic cavity and for recurrent cases with pleural dissemination (Masaoka stage IVA), the ...
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Surgical treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma: extrapleural pneumonectomy, pleurectomy/decortication or extended pleurectomy?
... approach. However, the role and order of adjuvant or ne- oadjuvant use of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery has not been established. The aim of this study was to ana- lyze contemporary studies on the impact of ...
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Summary. Key-words: mesothelioma, surgery, pleural neoplasms surgery, pneumonectomy, pleura
... Extrapleural pneumonectomy starts with a full thickness resection of any previous diag- nostic parietal tract and scar. A vertical mid-axillary line incision is preferred for its many advantages: easy ...
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Angiogenesis gene expression in murine endothelial cells during post-pneumonectomy lung growth
... after pneumonectomy was studied by PCR ...after pneumonectomy, no genes were signifi- cantly different from control (p ...after pneumonectomy identified 14 genes with differentially increased ...
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Intensity-modulated radiotherapy and volumetric-modulated arc therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma after extrapleural pleuropneumonectomy
... VMAT using multiple partial arcs enhances the treatment quality with photons when compared to IMRT by reducing the dose of ionizing radiation to the remaining lung while saving treatmen[r] ...
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Doege Potter syndrome presenting with hypoinsulinemic hypoglycemia in a patient with a malignant extrapleural solitary fibrous tumor: a case report
... doi:10.1186/1752-1947-7-11 Cite this article as: Schutt et al.: Doege-Potter syndrome presenting with hypoinsulinemic hypoglycemia in a patient with a malignant extrapleural solitary fib[r] ...
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Sleeve lobectomy versus pneumonectomy for non small cell lung cancer: a meta analysis
... The limitations of the present meta-analysis were as follows: (1), some studies contained a few patients who did not have NSCLC or tracheal carina resection, as illu- strated in Table 1. (2) The disease stage ...
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Survival after Pneumonectomy for Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
... left pneumonectomy (56%), and sixteen patients underwent right ...after pneumonectomy; eight patients received adjuvant chemotherapy and/or radiation, and ten patients received surgery alone (Table ...
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Successful outcome following pneumonectomy in a teenage boy with cystic fibrosis: a case report
... We believe that careful case selection, improvement of nutritional status pre-operatively and targeted antimicro- bial therapy all contributed to the smooth peri-operative course and successful outcome. All of these ...
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Structural changes underlying compensatory increase of diffusing capacity after left pneumonectomy in adult dogs
... following pneumonectomy is due to structural growth, we performed morphometric analysis of the right lung in three adult foxhounds approximately 2 yr after left pneumonectomy (removal of 42% of lung) and ...
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Detection of murine post-pneumonectomy lung regeneration by 18FDG PET imaging
... A particularly intriguing biologic process in the lung is post-pneumonectomy lung regeneration. In most adult mammals, the removal of one lung (pneumonec- tomy) results in the rapid compensatory growth of the ...
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Nuclear factor-kappa B influences early phase of compensatory lung growth after pneumonectomy in mice
... There are two previous publications investigating glo- bal gene expression profiling after pneumonectomy to date [8, 9]. Wada et al. showed that NF-κB inhibitor zeta gene expressions, which may change in parallel ...
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Thoracoscopic Pneumonectomy for Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): A Case Report and Review of the Literature
... Lung resection may be accomplished through open thoracotomy or VATS. Approximately 20% of all lobec- tomies worldwide are performed thoracoscopicall. Mini- mally invasive resection associated with VATS remains less ...
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A Rare Case of Pulmonary Actinomycosis Presented as a Pseudotumor Diagnosed after Pneumonectomy: A Case Report and Literature Review
... definite diagnosis after left pneumonectomy because of the high suspicion for lung cancer from CT scan of the chest. The onset of pulmonary actinomycosis is insidious with the three commonest complaints of cough, ...
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Unexpected Intraoperative Resecting of Common Trunk of Pulmonary Vein Resulted in an Incidental Pneumonectomy from Left Upper Lobectomy
... For the four upper lobectomies with a common trunk, the abnormality could not be preoperatively and intraope- ratively obtained before their resection. Postoperatively, two cases were confirmed as abnormal venous connec- ...
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Pneumonectomy of Primary Pulmonary Angiosarcoma with Malignant Effusion and Intrapleural Hypotonic Hyperthermic Chemotherapy: Case Report and Review of the Literature
... We performed a palliative pneumonectomy of unresectable pulmonary angiosarcoma. The reason was to re- duce the angiosarcoma volume and to prevent lethal pulmonary bleeding from the tumor. Because there were few ...
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Comparison of acute phase reaction and postoperative stress in pigs undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic versus thoracotomy pneumonectomy
... Pneumonectomy is a lung resection technique used in humans and animals to remove all lung lobes when bilobectomy or lobectomy techniques are inadequate to remove the pathology in the hemithorax. Pneumonec- tomy ...
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