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[Postoperative complications in the surgical treatment of lung cancer]
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova
|August 1, 1979
Abstract:
The paper describes the experience of 700 operations for pulmonary cancer. Under detailed analysis were 293 cases for the recent 7 years. Among them there were 55 patients with postoperative complications. Bronchial fistulas and pleura empyemas were found in 31 patients, cardio-respiratory insufficiency--in 10, pneumonia--in 6, postoperative hemorrhage--in 5, thromboembolism--in 3 patients. The methods of prophylaxis and treatment of such complications are proposed.