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  • Title: [Post-operative pleural infection of lung cancer and its influence on survival].
    Author: Cai LF.
    Journal: Zhonghua Zhong Liu Za Zhi; 1989 Jan; 11(1):57-9. PubMed ID: 2550200.
    Abstract:
    1139 patients with primary lung cancers resected from 1954 to 1984 are reported. Twelve of them had pleural infection post-operatively, an infection rate of 1%. The infection caused mainly by Staphylococcus aureus developed on Days 5-23 post-operatively. Most of the patients had fever. Closed drainage was applied for each case. Two of these 12 patients survived for more than 5 years. They had Stage 1 and Stage 2 small cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. No significant difference was observed in the 5-year survival rate (33.3% and 30.6%) between the infected group and uninfected group. There was no relation between the post-operative pleural infection and prognosis. With review of related literature, beneficial immunologic response leading to better prognosis might exist in the infected cases, but further observation and discussions are needed.
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