Extended Resection of Bronchogenic Carcinoma

Abstract

SINCE 1933 surgical resection has provided the most hopeful method of preventing inevitable death from bronchogenic carcinoma. Despite efforts to reduce delay between insidious onset and treatment the tumor has often advanced beyond the confines of the lung at the time of diagnosis. Technical resection of such an advanced lesion has been increasingly possible with the use of intrapericardial dissection, bronchoplastic and thoracoplastic reconstruction as well as cardiovascular technics. Such extended resection has been justified by Chamberlain et al.,¹ Smith,² Thomas³ and others as the only hope for cure or in lieu of cure as a means of palliation. The . . .