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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;123:271-279
© 2002 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery


General Thoracic Surgery (GTS)

Radical en bloc resection for lung cancer invading the spine

Dominique H. Grunenwald, MDa, Christian Mazel, MDb, Philippe Girard, MDa, Giulia Veronesi, MDa, Lorenzo Spaggiari, MDc, Dominique Gossot, MDa, Denis Debrosse, MDa, Raffaele Caliandro, MDa, Jean-Luc Le Guillou, MDd, Thierry Le Chevalier, MDe

From the Thoracic Department,a Orthopaedic Department,b and Intensive Care Unit,d Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France; Department of Thoracic Surgery,c European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; and Department of Medicine,e Insitut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.

Received for publication April 5, 2001. Revisions requested July 3, 2001; revisions received July 27, 2001. Accepted for publication Aug 3, 2001. Address for reprints: D. H. Grunenwald, MD, Head, Thoracic Department, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, 42 Boulevard Jourdan, 75674 Paris Cedex 14, France (E-mail: thorax{at}imm.fr).

Objective: We reviewed our 8-year experience with en bloc partial and total vertebrectomy for lung cancer invading the spine and report outcome and survival.
Methods: Nineteen patients with lung cancers involving the spine underwent en bloc resection. Eleven received induction treatment (chemotherapy, n = 5; chemoradiotherapy, n = 4; and radiation, n = 2). Pneumonectomy was performed in 3 patients, lobectomy in 13 patients, and wedge resection in 3 patients. Hemivertebrectomy was performed in 15 patients, and total vertebrectomy was performed in 4 patients. The median number of resected vertebral bodies was 3 (range, 1-4). Tumor stage was IIIB in 14 patients, IIIA in 1 patient, and IIB in 4 patients (hemivertebrectomy is performed in the case of T3 disease to obtain free margins). Surgical nodal status was N0 in 13 patients, N1 in 3 patients, N2 in 1 patient, and N3 (supraclavicular) in 2 patients. Complete macroscopic and microscopic resection was achieved in 15 (79%) patients.
Results: There was no immediate postoperative mortality. Morbidity was observed in 10 patients, including 4 (21%) complications related to the spinal surgery. The median hospital stay was 30 days. Seven patients were alive after a mean follow-up of 26 months (range, 7-74 months). The 1- and 5-year predicted survivals (updated) are 59% and 14%, respectively. Nine local recurrences were observed.
Conclusions: En bloc resection of chest tumors with vertebrectomy is technically demanding, and postoperative morbidity should be critically addressed with this aggressive surgical intervention. However, an encouraging long-term survival observed in this series suggests that en bloc resection could be a valid option in selected patients with vertebral involvement of chest tumors.




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