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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;31:141. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.10.027
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

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Pulmonary resection in octogenarians

Marc Riquet*, Pascal Berna, Joao-Carlos das Neves-Pereira, Christophe Foucault

Georges Pompidou European Hospital, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France

Received 8 October 2006; accepted 25 October 2006.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +33 1 56 09 34 50. (Email: marc.riquet@hop.egp.ap-hop-paris.fr).

Key Words: Octogenarians • Pneumonectomy • TNM

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The experience of Matsuoka et al. [1] with resections for lung cancer in octogenarians (n = 40) was characterised by 20% non-lethal complications (n = 8), 40% lobectomies (n = 16), 60% segmentectomies and wedge (n = 12 each), no pneumonectomy. There were 22 adenocarcinomas (55%), 11 squamous (27.5%), 4 large-cell (10%), 2 adenosquamous (5%), 1 neuroendocrine (2.5%) cell carcinomas and essentially pStage I disease (n = 35, 87.5%; pStage II n = 3, 7.5% and . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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