The clinical meaning of the measurement of the chest wall movement
Satomura, K.
Nihon Geka Hokan. Archiv für Japanische Chirurgie 60(1): 67-74
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9152 PMID: 1819241 Document Number: 380023
Using a 6-channeled linear magnetometer, the chest wall movement of the esophageal cancer patients was measured before operation. The patients were divided into two groups. Group A: measured value of the bilateral chest wall movement was equal. Group B: measured value of the chest wall movement was different. (One side of the chest wall movement was restricted.) Two groups were compared with several factors in pre-, intra-, post-operation. Two groups had difference in thickness and adhesion of the pleura, operation time, bleeding volume on thoracotomy, lymph nodes metastasis to intrathoratic region, and staging by lymph nodes metastasis. (Group B had larger value in these factors.) The result suggests that the restriction of the chest wall movement was caused by the adhesion of the pleura.