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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 3, 288-291, Copyright © 1989 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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Conservative and bronchoplastic resection for bronchial carcinoid tumours

J Toledo, R Roca, JA Anton, JL Martin de Nicolas, G Varela and P Yuste
Section of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.

From January 1974 to December 1987, 45 cases of bronchial carcinoid were surgically managed at our Unit, 44 of which were evaluated. All patients but 2 were submitted to fiberoptic bronchoscopy prior to surgery. A standard resection was performed in 19 cases (13 lobectomies, 4 bilobectomies and 2 pneumonectomies). In 11 cases, pulmonary resection was complemented with a bronchoplastic technique (6 lobectomies, 2 bilobectomies, 2 pneumonectomies, 1 segmentectomy). Four cases were managed by minimal resections (2 segmental, 1 wedge, 1 enucleation) and 8 others by bronchotomy and local resection without the sacrifice of lung tissue. There were two major postoperative complications and no operative mortality. Mean follow-up has been 53 months and no local bronchial recurrence has been observed although 2 patients have developed distant metastases, with 1 death. The absence of local recurrence in a series in which more than 50% of patients were treated with some form of conservative surgery seems to indicate that resection of lung tissue should be avoided whenever possible.

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