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7532926

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-28
pubmed:abstractText
Survival after surgical palliation of patients with malignant pleural effusions is expected to be of several months. From a group of 75 patients operated by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) from September 1991 through March 1993, twenty-two of 38 patients with malignant disease underwent palliative surgery and operative morbidity and length of survival were studied. Palliation consisted in 20 talc pleurodesis and 2 pericardial windows for malignant effusions. In the 16 other patients with malignancy, video-thoracoscopy was done for diagnostic purposes. Thirty-day operative mortality was 13.6% (3/22) and the rate of operative morbidity was 31.8% (7/22). The follow-up was complete for all patients with a mean length of 5 months (+/- sd 4 months). During the follow-up period, 14 of 19 (74%) patients, alive 30 days after the procedure, were deceased at a mean of 3.4 +/- 4 months (6 patients < 3 months) after the operation. In all, 9 of 22 patients (40%) survived less than 3 months (median survival 4 months). Operative morbidity and mortality of video-thoracoscopy are high in the palliative group and only 60% of patients survived more than 3 months. More stringent criteria for selection of patients for palliative endosurgery should be defined.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0003-3944
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
48
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
768-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
[Palliative treatment of malignant effusions by thoracoscopy under video-assistance: morbidity and survival].
pubmed:affiliation
Programme de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire et Thoracique, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract