More limited resection with an autogenous graft applied to the pulmonary artery in a squamous cell lung cancer case

Abstract

It may be necessary to use pneumonectomy in patients with invasion of the main bronchus and or pulmonary artery in a lung cancer, especially those with a central location, as a lobectomy may be inadequate. This leads to a larger degree of respiratory function loss in the postoperative period. Bronchovascular reconstruction and lobectomy together with the resection of the main bronchus and the invaded section of the pulmonary artery when required may therefore be used as a parenchyma-sparing method. We present a case of squamous cell carcinoma located in the upper lobe and invading the pulmonary artery branch where lobectomy instead of pneumonectomy was used after pulmonary artery resection and pulmonary artery reconstruction with a pericardial patch.