Surgical treatment for metastatic lung cancer treated with bevacizumab

Shirato, T.; Aoki, T.; Yazawa, M.

Kyobu Geka. Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 64(7): 579-581

2011


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-5252
PMID: 21766712
Document Number: 652194
62-year-old man with obstructive pneumonitis due to metastatic lung cancer admitted for surgery. Anticancer chemotherapy combined with bevacizumab had been canceled 8 weeks before surgery. Right lower lobectomy and wedge resection of right upper lobe were performed. Subcutaneous emphysema and prolonged air leakage appeared 5 days after surgery. Re-operation was performed 6 days after surgery, in order to control air leakage from suture line of the lung. The reason of prolonged air leakage was possibly the side effect of bevacizumab.

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