PMID: 15369301Sep 17, 2004Paper

Endoscopic surgery of trachea and bronchi

Klinichna khirurhiia
P P ShipulinI N Dmytriv

Abstract

More than twenty-year experience of performance of endoscopic laser operation (ELO) on trachea and bronchi in patients with malignant and benign tumors was summarized. Cancer of trachea and bronchi of I-II stages was noted in 3, of III stage--in 384, of IV stage--in 205 patients, adenoma of bronchus--in 13. Technical possibilities of Nd-YAG laser were demonstrated. The immediate and follow-up results of operative intervention, subsequent possibilities of combined treatment of patients using, after ELO conduction, the extended intervention in combination with radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

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