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(Chest. 1989;96:51S-53S.)
© 1989 American College of Chest Physicians

Extended Operations for T3-T4 Primary Lung Cancers

Indications and Results

P. Dartevelle M.D.1; J. Marzelle M.D.1; A. Chapelier M.D.1; and F. Loc'h M.D.1

1 The Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Heart Lung Transplantation, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Plessis Robinson, France.

While surgery remains the best treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma, new surgical techniques, ie, carinal reconstruction, prosthetic replacement of SVC, and combined approach of superior sulcus tumors, can be applied to T3-T4 tumors; the operative mortality is low, it provides satisfactory relief of symptoms, and gives much better results than surgery of N2 tumors.






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