Experience of surgical treatment of primary peripheral pulmonary cancer and of tumoral metastases by video-assisted thoracoscopy
Peliukhovskiĭ, S.V.; Bashtan, V.P.; Dyshkevich, V.; Chernobaĭ, A.V.; Korneev, O.V.; Litvinenko, V.E.
Klinichna Khirurhiia 2: 29-30
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 15124471 Document Number: 571204
In clinic of thoracic surgery were operated on 2108 patients for various forms of pulmonary cancer, 218 (10.3%) of them--using videothoracoscopy (VTHS). In 141 (64.7%) patients the method of VTHS was applied for diagnostical purposes and in 55 (25.2%)--for treatment. Histological investigations of excised specimen showed planocellular cancer in 38 patients, adenocarcinoma--in 9, nonsmall cell carcinoma--in 6, anaplastic cancer--in 2. The operation cost while applying VTHS had constituted at average 648.65 US dollars, of thoracotomy--1283.5 US dollars.