Pneumonectomy with carinal resection in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: short and long-term results

Objective. With to compare short- and long-term treatment outcomes of different carinal resection techniques in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and carina involvement. Materials and methods. We performed retrospective nonrandomized clinical trial with following groups of patients: patients underwent pneumonectomy with sleeve carinal resection (47 patients); patients underwent pneumonectomy with marginal and wedge carinal resection (18 patients). Statistical analysis was made using Statistic 6.0 program. Case-control analysis of the both groups was performed to evaluate short- and long-term treatment outcomes of different carinal resection techniques in patients with NSCLC and carina involvement. Results. Frequency of non-surgical and surgical complications was 27.7% and 18.5% correspondingly. Postoperative mortality was 8.5% in sleeve carinal resection group and 11.1% in marginal and wedge carinal resection group. Five-year survival rates were 32.6% in sleeve carinal resection group and 11.1% in marginal wedge carinal resection group.