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Right tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy for complex pulmonary aspergilloma in a patient with diffuse large B-cell
Vincenzo Verzeletti1, Andrea Dell'Amore1, Alberto Busetto1
1Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy.
Abstract:
Tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy consists of en bloc resection of the lung, main bronchus plus a section of the carina and its subsequent anastomosis with the remaining main-stem bronchus. We present the unique case of a 56-year-old patient, who underwent tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy for a complex pulmonary aspergilloma invading almost the entire right lung up to the carina.
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