[Organ preserving surgeries of the lungs]

Results of performance of a new organpreserving operation, the precise excision of pulmonary pathologic formation, were summarized in 172 patients, suffering hamartochondroma--in 120, fibroadenoma--in 7, solitary cyst--in 11, tuberculoma--in 32. The proposed operative method advantages in comparison with conventional procedures are: preservation of one or two unaffected pulmonary segments--in 115 patients, the pulmonary lobe--in 38, the lung--in 19. The postoperative complications frequency is two times less. The ability to work was restored in 3-5 mo after the operation. In the late follow-up period the complete clinical effect of treatment was observed.