[Results in surgery of bronchus carcinoma]

During a 6-year period from 1986 to 1991, 119 patients with lung cancer underwent thoracotomy. 112 underwent surgical resection with lymphadenectomy. The mean age of the 97 male patients was 62.7 years, and of the 15 female patients was 62.7 years, and of the 15 female patients 57.1 years. 54 patients were in stage I, 23 stage II, 21 stage IIIa, 8 stage IIIb and 6 stage IV. Pneumonectomy was performed in 20 cases, bilobectomy in 2, lobectomy in 81, segmentectomy in 3 and sleeve lobectomy in 6. Perioperative death occurred in 2.7% of all patients, 5% of patients who underwent pneumonectomy and 2.2% of patients who underwent lobectomy. Serious complications occurred in 19% of all thoracotomy patients. The re-thoracotomy rate was 6% and mortality 0.8%. The cumulative 5-year survival rate in all 112 patients with surgical resection was 54.6%, and for the 54 patients with radical resection 60.3%.