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[Surgical strategy for invasive pulmonary and mediastinal tumors requiring superior vena cava reconstruction].
Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 1999 January
During the past 16 years, 22 patients were operated on concomitantly with superior vena cava (SVC) reconstruction in our university hospital. Among them, 19 patients had anterior mediastinal tumor and 3 advanced lung cancer. They were 13 males and 9 females, ranging in age from 16 to 70 (mean, 51.4) years. Severe SVC syndrome was found in 10 cases of them. The anterior mediastinal tumors consisted of invasive thymoma in 10 cases, thymic Hodgkin's disease in 2, seminoma in 2, and thymic cancer, thymic carcinoid, thyroid cancer, metastasis of chondrosarcoma and yolk sac tumor in each one. Regarding SVC reconstruction, anatomical bypass was performed in 18 cases, in addition to a radical resection of the tumor. The left innominate vein was reconstructed in 5, the right innominate vein including SVC in 4 and bilateral veins in 9. Extra-anatomical bypass was performed in 4 cases with unresectable tumors because of severe SVC syndrome. Subclavian-femoral vein bypass was performed in one and internal jugular-femoral vein bypass in 3. In anatomical bypass, 7 cases have been alive now though 11 died, and graft patency rate was 82% in the right and 38% in the left. All 4 cases with extraanatomical bypass showed improvement of SVC syndrome, but died one to seven months postoperatively. In conclusions, radical operation with reconstruction of SVC was effective to long-term survival and improvement of SVC syndrome. Extraanatomical bypass improved postoperative quality of life remarkably.
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