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Chest wall resection and reconstruction via a muscle-sparing minithoracotomy for lung cancer
C D Campo1, R A Roethe, V W Lee
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Virginia K. Crosson Cancer Center, St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, California, USA.
The American Surgeon
|November 23, 2000
Abstract:
Five per cent of lung cancers involve the parietal pleura and chest wall. En bloc resections improve survival. Lung resections via muscle-sparing chest incisions have minimized complications and hospital stay. We present a case in which we performed an en bloc lobectomy with chest wall resection and reconstruction through a muscle sparing minithoracotomy in a 48-year-old woman. She was discharged in the fourth postoperative day and remains tumor free and asymptomatic after 4 years.