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Jeong-Won Kim1, Jeong Shik Kim2, Joon Yong Cho1

  • 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea.

Lung Cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
|June 24, 2014
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A 38-year-old non-smoking female patient was evaluated at our hospital for an increasing mass in the right lower lung field at 24 weeks of gestation. Computed tomography revealed an approximately 7.5-cm diameter mass in the right lower lung lobe. After assessing the benefits to the patient and risks to the fetus, we performed a lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection using video-assisted thoracoscopy. Three months postoperatively, the patient delivered a healthy male baby. The patient is alive 10 months following the lobectomy, and no evidence of recurrence and distant metastasis is noted. The 6-month-old infant is also doing well postpartum.

Keywords:
CancerLobectomy of lungLung cancer surgeryMaternal and fetal outcomesPregnancyThoracoscopic surgery

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