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  • Title: Successful intentional lobectomy for lung cancer after treating contralateral diaphragmatic eventration.
    Author: Iwasaki T, Ohta M, Shintani Y, Ikeda N.
    Journal: Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg; 2010 Jun; 10(6):1049-50. PubMed ID: 20231308.
    Abstract:
    Diaphragmatic eventration permanently raises all or part of the hemidiaphragm, thus impairing respiratory function by compressing the ipsilateral lung and mediastinum. A 55-year-old woman had cT1N0M0 lung adenocarcinoma in the right lower lobe and diaphragmatic eventration in the left hemithorax. We repaired the eventration to recover respiratory function, then performed a radical lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection. Pathologically, the tumor was a well-differentiated acinar adenocarcinoma (pT1N0M0 stage IA). She was free from cancer and eventration 18 months later. This is the first known report of a lung cancer patient with impaired respiratory function who underwent an intentional radical lobectomy following repair of contralateral diaphragmatic eventration to recover respiratory function.
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