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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;28:182
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Gender and early mortality after lung resection in elderly

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, "Umberto I°" Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy

Received 25 February 2005; accepted 4 April 2005.

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Key Words: Elderly • Lung resection • Gender • Mortality

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I read with interest the article of Rostad et al. [1]. The authors collected all elderly patients resected for lung cancer in Norway from 1993 to 2000, and reported a 30-day mortality rate of 9%. Moreover, they found a higher mortality rate after pneumonectomy (20%) and in men undergoing bilobectomy and pneumonectomy compared to women (25 vs. 7.5%).

At our Institution, 402 patients older than 70 years of age were operated on for lung cancer from 1994 to 2004 (39 sub-lobar resections, 280 lobectomy, 38 bilobectomy, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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				H. Rostad, T.-E. Strand, and J. Norstein Reply to Brunelli Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg., July 1, 2005; 28(1): 182 - 183. [Full Text] [PDF]