Minimally invasive treatment of lung cancer
- VernacularTitle:肺癌的微创治疗
- Author:
Haiquan CHEN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
lung cancer;
minimally invasive surgery;
surgery therapy;
video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
- From:China Oncology
2001;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Being one of the main choices for treatment of lung cancer, surgery has developed enormously. Minimally invasive treatment of lung cancer includes video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS) and Muscle-sparing thoracotomy (MST) which are both feasible and safe for lobectomy, and both with less bleeding, less impairment of pulmonary and heart function, quicker return to full preoperative activities with less pain, fewer complications, and shorter length of stay mhospital than full postero-lateral thoracotomy. Muscle-sparing thoracotomy is simple and safe, providing adequate exposure,satisfying radical resection. So it could be the routine incision in resection of carcinoma and benign tumors in lung. Lacking prospective randomized study data, and with difficulties in dissecting mediastinal lymph nodes, and no difference in postoperative complications, length of stay in hospital, and survival rate, VATS could only be applied to selected patients for ‘easy’ lobectomies; but MST could be used in almost all the cases of lung cancer surgery.
