[Surgical treatment of middle lobe carcinoma of the lung]

From February 1965 to April 1993, 88 patients with middle lobe carcinoma of the lung were treated surgically. It constituted 7.7% of the total patients of operated lung cancer in our hospital. Clinical symptoms were mainly fever, cough, bloody-sputum and chest pain. 84 of 88 patients were treated by wedge resection, lobectomy and pneumonectomy. Exploration was preformed in 4 patients. The 1, 3, 5 and 10-year survival rates of the 78 patients followed up were 87.18%, 43.08%, 38.18% and 24.13% respectively. It related to four clinical features of middle lobe cancer of the lung were treated surgically is discussed.