[Postoperative complications and immediate results of reconstructive-plastic surgery of the trachea and bronchi]

For the last 3 years 77 reconstructive and plastic operations on the trachea and bronchi, including 25 pulmonectomies with tracheal bifurcation resection, were performed at the Chelyabinsk regional antituberculous dispensary. Postoperative complications were registered in 11.7% of the cases. Postoperative mortality (3.9%) is not associated with surgical complications. In 5 cases of left upper lobectomies with a circular resection of the primary bronchus, an original mobilization technique of the lower lobe of the left lung, enabling one to exclude the tension of an anastomosis and decrease the volume of hemithorax after resection, was applied. The rise in death from cancer and other diseases of the tracheobronchial tree with concurrent tuberculosis in some cases makes it advisable to widely integrate phthisiology and pneumology.