Extended Operations for T3-T4 Primary Lung Cancers

Abstract

While surgery remains the best treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma, new surgical techniques, ie, carinal reconstruction, prosthetic replacement of SVC, and combined approach of superior sulcus tumors, can be applied to T3-T4 tumors; the operative mortality is low, it provides satisfactory relief of symptoms, and gives much better results than surgery of N2 tumors.