[Evaluation of tracheobronchoplasty for lung cancer]

Tracheobronchoplasty has become one of the standard procedures for lung cancer. In this study, we examined the incidence of complications and survival of tracheobronchoplasty and compared with these of pneumonectomy. In 119 patients underwent tracheobronchoplasty, bronchopleural fistula occurred in 6 (5.0%) and anastomotic stenosis occurred in 5 (4.2%). Five-year survival rate of 119 patients underwent tracheobronchoplasty was 47.3%, and the median survival time was 49.3 months. We compared the sleeve or wedge lobectomy and pneumonectomy, the incidence of complications and 30-days death were similar, but the rate of in-hospital death and the prognosis of the sleeve or wedge lobectomy were better than these of pneumonectomy. So to preserve a respiratory function, we should use a bronchoplastic procedures to avoid pneumonectomy.