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Anesthesia for the Pregnant Patient with Intrathoracic Tumor

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Cancer in pregnancy is a rare occasion affecting less than 0.1% of all pregnancies. Either primary or secondary metastatic thoracic tumors during pregnancy account even a small portion of them. However, any lung tumor of a term pregnant has devastating potential influence during the anesthesia for childbirth. Due to extreme scarcity of these cases, there are no well-established anesthesia methods to overcome the problems encountered in this particular patient population. Data and information in this field are derived mainly from occasional case reports and mini reviews. The aim of this chapter is to give a structured information and to discuss the possible challenges that the anesthesiologist may come across.

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  1. Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, Anesthesia and Reanimation Department, İzmir, Turkey

    Bülent Serhan Yurtlu

  2. Katip Celebi University, Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Anesthesia and Reanimation Department, İzmir, Turkey

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Berrin Gunaydin

  2. Department of Anaesthesiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

    Samina Ismail

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Yurtlu, B.S., Yurtlu, D.A. (2018). Anesthesia for the Pregnant Patient with Intrathoracic Tumor. In: Gunaydin, B., Ismail, S. (eds) Obstetric Anesthesia for Co-morbid Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93163-0_16

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