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Sleeve lobectomy for lung carcinoma in a patient with muscular dystrophy
M Okada1, H Yamamoto, S Satake
1Department of Thoracic Surgery and Neurology, National Hyogo Central Hospital, Japan.
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
We performed a sleeve lobectomy on a patient with squamous-cell carcinoma of the lung who had poor pulmonary function and could not move his extremities or trunk, due to a muscular dystrophy. Lung cancer in a highly disabled patient can be resected even with a bronchoplastic procedure.