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Video-assisted lobectomy in elderly lung cancer patients

The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery volume 50, pages 15–22 (2002)Cite this article

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Objectives: We evaluated the pre-, intra-and postoperative outcome of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy in elderly lung cancer patients to determine what factors may be disadvantageous.Methods: From June 1982 to May 2000, 707 patients underwent pulmonary resection for primary lung cancer. Of these, 87 patients with t1–2 peripheral lung cancer underwent lobectomy and postoperative pulmonary function tests and postoperative conditions at an average of 2.3 months postoperatively. Of these, 52 underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy since 1994 and 35 lobectomy by standard thoracotomy.Results: Vedeo-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy offered advantages in blood loss, chest wall damage, and minimal performance deterioration status. The percent vital capacity, percent forced expiratory in 1 second, and percent maximum ventilatory volume were well preserved in patients who underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified operation duration as an independent risk factor in morbidity and operative procedure as an independent risk factor in performance deterioration. In stage IA and IB patients, 3-year-survival was 92.9% and 5-year survival 53.8% in those undergoing lobectomy by standard thoracotomy and 84.2% at 3 years and 60.1% at 5-years in those undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy.Conclusion: We thus consider video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy in this age group to be an effective procedure, but the long surgical duration is a risk factor in a poor clinical outcome.

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  1. Deparmtent of Surgery II, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8602, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiyoshi Koizumi, Shuji Haraguchi, Tomomi Hirata, Kyoji Hirai, Iwao Mikami, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, Hirotoshi Kubokura, Daisuke Okada & Hirohiko Akiyama

  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Saitama Cancer Center, Saitama, Japan

    Shigeo Tanaka

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Koizumi, K., Haraguchi, S., Hirata, T. et al. Video-assisted lobectomy in elderly lung cancer patients. Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 50, 15–22 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02913481

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Key words

  • video-assisted thoracic surgery
  • lobectomy
  • lung cancer
  • pulmonary function
  • performance status