Minimally invasive surgery for centrally located lung cancers
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0529-5815.2020.01.013
- VernacularTitle: 微创外科技术在中央型肺癌治疗中的应用
- Author:
Wentao FANG
1
;
Tangbing CHEN
;
Jizhuang LUO
;
Chunyu JI
;
Feng YAO
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Lung neoplasms;
Surgical procedures, minimally invasive
- From:
Chinese Journal of Surgery
2020;58(1):57-60
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Minimally invasive surgery helps enhance postoperative recovery and improve quality of life of the patients by minimizing surgical trauma and decreasing incisional pain. Minimally invasive pulmonary resection, including both video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and robotic surgery, is mainly used for surgical management of peripheral early stage lung cancers. Because of tumor location, lymph node involvement, and treatment modalities, surgery for central lung cancers is often technically demanding. Open thoracotomy is still the dominant approach for these tumors, especially when complex procedures such as sleeve lobectomy or pneumonectomy are needed. With the advent of surgical techniques, minimally invasive techniques have started to be tried in treatment of central lung cancers. Initial results have proven their feasibility and safety in sleeve lobectomy and pneumonectomy, showing a great potential of minimally invasive surgery in the future. Further study is necessary to prove its functionally superiority and oncological equivalence to open surgery, so that more lung cancer patients could benefit for minimally invasive surgery.
