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A case of trans-sternal bilateral thoracotomy for bilateral lung cancer
A Andou1, S Maruyama, T Matsutani
1Second Department of Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
Acta Medica Okayama
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
Trans-sternal bilateral thoracotomy was performed to resect the right upper lobe and the left S1 + 2 + S3, and to complete lymphadenectomy in a 35-year-old female case of lung cancer in whom multiple lesions were suspected. Trans-sternal bilateral thoracotomy was considered to be useful for one-stage surgery in patients in whom bilateral lung cancer is suspected or confirmed, because it provides a sufficient surgical field enabling the resection of lung and lymph nodes. This may be the first case report of trans-sternal bilateral thoracotomy to treat multiple primary lung cancer.