Successful treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the left main bronchus

Here, we report the successful treatment of a 40-year-old man with mucoepidermoid carcinoma that originated in the proximal end of the left main bronchus close to the carina. He underwent wide and deep airway wedge resection, including the distal trachea and part of the carina via left postero-later...

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Autores principales: Kawano, Osamu, Yuki, Daisuke, Fukai, Ichiro, Tsubota, Noriaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26413461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-015-0087-4
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author Kawano, Osamu
Yuki, Daisuke
Fukai, Ichiro
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description Here, we report the successful treatment of a 40-year-old man with mucoepidermoid carcinoma that originated in the proximal end of the left main bronchus close to the carina. He underwent wide and deep airway wedge resection, including the distal trachea and part of the carina via left postero-lateral thoracotomy. He has demonstrated neither anatomic complications nor disease recurrence 2 years after the operation.
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spelling pubmed-45775282015-09-24 Successful treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the left main bronchus Kawano, Osamu Yuki, Daisuke Fukai, Ichiro Tsubota, Noriaki Surg Case Rep Case Report Here, we report the successful treatment of a 40-year-old man with mucoepidermoid carcinoma that originated in the proximal end of the left main bronchus close to the carina. He underwent wide and deep airway wedge resection, including the distal trachea and part of the carina via left postero-lateral thoracotomy. He has demonstrated neither anatomic complications nor disease recurrence 2 years after the operation. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4577528/ /pubmed/26413461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-015-0087-4 Text en © Kawano et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_fullStr Successful treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the left main bronchus
title_full_unstemmed Successful treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the left main bronchus
title_short Successful treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the left main bronchus
title_sort successful treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the left main bronchus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577528/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-015-0087-4
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