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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 104, 1470-1475, Copyright © 1992 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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A twenty-five-year follow-up of ninety-three resected typical carcinoid tumors of the lung

AJ Schreurs, CJ Westermann, JM van den Bosch, RG Vanderschueren, A Brutel de la Riviere and PJ Knaepen
Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Sint Antonius Ziekenhuis, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.

From 1965 to 1990, 93 patients (57 women and 36 men) with typical bronchopulmonary carcinoids were operated upon. Patient ages ranged from 17 to 78 years, the mean age being 45.5 years. Central carcinoids were symptomatic in 80% of the patients. A correct preoperative diagnosis was made in 54 of 64 (84%) patients. Peripheral carcinoids were usually asymptomatic and a correct diagnosis was established in 4 of 29 patients (14%). The prognosis in the group of patients with bronchopulmonary carcinoids treated surgically was excellent. Seven patients died from nonrelated causes. The 5-, 10-, and 15-year survival rates for the remaining 86 patients are 100%. Only one patient died as a result of the tumor after 17 years and another patient is known to have had distant metastasis 9 years after resection. There was no hospital mortality. In the last decade a lung parenchyma-preserving attitude was adopted. Whenever possible, bronchoplastic surgery was applied for central carcinoids and resection of one segment or less was used for peripheral carcinoids. This approach was possible in 30 of 50 patients (60%). Nine patients were treated with preoperative endobronchial neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser resection to facilitate a lung-preserving surgical resection. The prognosis of patients for whom a lung-preserving approach was adopted was as good as that of those with conventional resections. Involvement of regional lymph nodes (nine patients, 9.7%) or positive resection margins (two patients, 2.1%) had no influence on prognosis. We conclude that lung- preserving resections are often facilitated by preoperative neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser treatment in central obstructing carcinoids.

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