BACKGROUNDTo arrive at a rational diagnosis and effective surgical treatment of primary pulmonary low-grade malignant carcinoma.

METHODSEighty-nine patients with primary pulmonary low-grade malignant carcinoma received surgical treatment from 1956 to 2000.

RESULTSOut of the 89 patients, 54 were bronchial carcinoid, 18 were mucoepidermoid cancer, and 17 were adenoid cystic carcinoma. The operative procedures included resection of tracheal carcinoma in 3, lobectomy in 49, sleeve lobectomy in 14, total pneumonectomy in 14, and wedge pneumonectomy in 6. All patients were complaint free. The 5-year survival rates of bronchial carcinoid and adenoid cystic carcinoma were 91.3% and 70.6% respectively, and no patients with bronchial mucoepidermoid cancer died until now.

CONCLUSIONSBronchial carcinoid, adenoid cystic carcinoma and mucoepidermoid cancer are a series of primary pulmonary carcinoma of low malignant potential, whose predilection sites are main or lobe bronchi, and clinical symptoms are repeated infection of the lung or intermittent hemoptysis. The diagnosis depends on radiography or CT scan of chest and bronchofiberscopy. The operation is most important, and whose procedure is lobectomy or sleeve lobectomy mainly.

BACKGROUND: Bronchial tuberculosis is a common complication of pulmonary tuberculosis. The present report is to investigate and analyze the indication and efficacy of surgical treatment of bronchial stricture due to severe endobronchial tuberculosis, when the drug and endoscopic treatment were no effect. METHODS: Reviewed the clinical-pathological records documenting the surgical outcomes in 36 bronchial stricture due to severe endobronchial tuberculosis who underwent lobectomy or pneumonectomy enrolled in our hospital between January 2000 and February 2016. Pneumonectomy in 8 cases, lobectomy in 23 cases, sleeve resection in 5 cases. RESULTS: No intraoperative or early postoperative death occurred. Six patients developed complications. All 6 cases recovered well after treatment. CONCLUSIONS Surgical treatment is still the recommended treatment modatity for bronchial stricture caused by endobronchial tuberculosis due to its good results. It should be performed in time when the drug and intraluninal treatment were no effect for avoiding of being progeressed.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Bronchi ; surgery ; Bronchoscopy ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pneumonectomy ; Retrospective Studies ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary ; surgery ; Young Adult