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标题：Urgent surgical treatment for a huge metastatic tumor of the right lung via plastron thoracotomy: A case report
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作者：Ryuta Fukai ; Yoshihito Irie ; Yoshiaki Katada 等
期刊名称：Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice
电子版ISSN：2397-9631
出版年度：2017
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：1-3
DOI：10.15761-BRCP.1000133
语种：English
出版社：Open Access Text
摘要：For an extremely large intrathoracic tumor, which almost occupies a unilateral thoracic cavity, it is likely that salvage surgery would provide benefit. Nevertheless, the operative risk of such salvage surgery is very high, plus the surgery itself often becomes challenging. The choice of surgical approach presents another problem, as the presence of a large tumor mass often makes it difficult to secure a workable surgical field. Our patient was a 63-year old man with a huge right lung metastasis from a left crural myxofibrosarcoma. We performed an urgent salvage surgery: a right pneumonectomy with assisted circulation via plastron thoracotomy. The patient lived a year and two months after the operation. We believe that plastron thoracotomy can be one of the available choices for surgical approach for resection of a giant thoracic tumor.
关键词：plastron thoracotomy; giant thoracic tumor; life-saving operation; assisted circulation