Open Left Upper Lobectomy in Complicated Patient

The non-standard patient and the difficult surgical case. A young man with a diagnosis of central cancer of the left lung B1 athelectasis and obstruction of B2 and B3 of the upper lobe of the left lung.

The patient was examined in another country and was scheduled chemoradiotherapy with clinical IIIA stage of NSLC (squamosus cell carcinoma). As he said, he passed several courses of RT, but his disease was suddenly complicated by acute pulmonary hemorrhage. Concomitant diseases: bronchial asthma, chronic form,

We decided to perform an left upper lobectomy for vital evidence, although, of course, pneumonectomy would be easier to perform in his case. But, perhaps, with his oncological prognosis and concomitant diseases lobectomy is better for his quality of life.

Video by Ilya Gotsadze (M.D., Ph.D.)