The immediate results of bronchoplastic surgical operations in surgery for lung malignant tumors

: Bronchoplastic surgical operations by means of invaginated method on 1 semicircle in lung malignant tumors were performed in 124 patients. Of them 116 patients (93,5%) had primary and 8 patients (6,5%) metastatic tumors. There were 94 men (75,8%) and 30 women (24,2%). The average age of patients was 56,4. The lesion of the right lung was observed in 78 patients (62,9%), of the left one in 46 patients (37,1%). Bronchoplastic lobectomies were performed in 98 patients (79%), bilobectomies - 17 patients (13,7%), segmentectomy - 4 patients (3.3%), isolated resections of bronchi - 5 patients (4,0%). All operations were radical. In all cases of lung cancer there was carried out extended inpsilateral lymph node dissection. Complications of different severity were observed in 24 patients (19,4%): pneumonia (4,8%), atelectasis (0,8%), insufficiency of bronchial sutures (3.2%), granulation stenosis of the bronchial anastomosis (1,6 %), chylothorax (0,8%), recurrent nerve palsy (2,4%), heart rhythm disorders (2,4%). Postoperative lethality was 4.8%.