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  • Title: [Completion pneumonectomy for recurrent lung cancer. Analysis of 59 cases].
    Author: Gao CX.
    Journal: Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi; 1991 Nov; 29(11):678-9, 717-8. PubMed ID: 1818804.
    Abstract:
    From 1973 to 1989, a total of 59 consecutive patients with recurrent lung cancer had completion pneumonectomy. Completion pneumonectomy was done on the right side in 35 patients and left side in 24. The median interval between the first pulmonary resection and completion pneumonectomy for patients was 35 months (5 m-9.5 y). In this series postoperative complications and mortality were comparable to those for routine pneumonectomy. The 1, 3, 5 and 10 year survival rates were 88.5%, 30.2%, 21.4% and 16.7% respectively. None of those patients with histologically proved gross tumor remaining in the hemithorax at the time of reoperation survived longer than 2 years. The authors emphasized that the planning for such an operation must be done meticulously but aggressively. It is obvious that incomplete surgical resection of bronchial carcinoma should be avoided either at initial operation or at completion pneumonectomy because of poor prognosis.
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