Premium
SEGMENTAL PULMONARY RESECTION 1
Author(s) -
Robb Douglas
Publication year - 1949
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1949.tb03648.x
Subject(s) - medicine , convalescence , anatomy , bronchus , lobe , resection , surgery , lung , respiratory disease
Summary On a basis of six cases segmental pulmonary resection is found to be eminently practicable at least as far as the middle lobe, lingula, apical or first dorsal and lower basal segments go. Convalescence on the whole has been good to excellent. In three of the cases post‐operative bronchograms show healthy bronchi in the portions conserved, but no late results are available. The principle of securing bronchus and vessels and then peeling the segment off through an avascular plane has also been applied with success in lobectomy in cases with poor or absent fissures.