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Case Reports

Photodynamic Therapy Followed by Thoracoscopic Sleeve Lobectomy for Locally Advanced Lung Cancer

^a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
^b Department of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Accepted for publication February 18, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr DeArmond, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229 (Email: dearmond{at}uthscsa.edu).

Photodynamic therapy is an effective technique for debulking endobronchial tumors over an acceptably short time-course; however, to be effective, numerous treatment cycles may be required to achieve the desired results. We present a case in which photodynamic therapy was used with curative intent to downsize an obstructing endobronchial non–small cell lung cancer in advance of resection via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with right upper lobe sleeve lobectomy.