[Regional chemotherapy in thoracic surgery]

The authors introduce their experiences on intracavital chemotherapy of mainly secondary pleural and pericardial malignant effusions based on a 5 years term of routinely used practise. In the cases of patients proper to the indicational conditions palliative regional cytostatic treatment was applied through transthoracal and intraopericardial (inserted by modified Fontenelle method) drains in order to cessate definitively the exsudation to improve the quality of life.