Pulmonary resection for lung cancer with malignant pleural disease first detected at thoracotomy | Zendy

Tatsuro Okamoto | Zendy; Takekazu Iwata | Zendy; Teruaki Mizobuchi | Zendy; Hidehisa Hoshino | Zendy; Yasumitsu Moriya | Zendy; Shigetoshi Yoshida | Zendy; Ichiro Yoshino | Zendy

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Pulmonary resection for lung cancer with malignant pleural disease first detected at thoracotomy

Author(s) -

Tatsuro Okamoto,

Takekazu Iwata,

Teruaki Mizobuchi,

Hidehisa Hoshino,

Yasumitsu Moriya,

Shigetoshi Yoshida,

Ichiro Yoshino

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2011.04.010

Subject(s) - medicine , thoracotomy , lung cancer , radiology , resection , malignant disease , lung , cancer , surgery

The prognosis of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with malignant pleural disease (MPD), characterized by malignant pleural effusion and/or malignant pleural nodules, is reported to be poor, and patients with MPD are generally not subjected to surgery. However, whether or not the primary tumor should be resected, when MPD is first detected at thoracotomy, is controversial.

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