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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:321
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Bronchovascular sleeve resection for lung cancer

Bülent Tunçözgür, MDa, Öner Dikensoy, MDa, Levent Elbeyli, MDa a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gaziantep University Medical School, 27070 Kolejtepe, Gaziantep, Turkey

e-mail: tuncozgur@gantep.edu.tr

To the Editor

We read with great interest the article by Rendina and associates [1]. As they indicated, sleeve resection of the pulmonary artery has not yet achieved acceptance in lung cancer. However, it is fortunate that long-term survival in their study was similar with that reported for standard resection.

In January 2000, we performed a bronchovascular sleeve right upper lobectomy together with lymph node dissection in a patient with squamous cell lung carcinoma who was a 67-year-old male. Computed tomography scan of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2001 72: 321-322. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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