Sleeve Lobectomy for Lung Cancer

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The technique of sleeve lobectomy has emerged as a relatively recent mode of excisional therapy. Acceptance of the technique has been slow because initially it has believed to be more difficult technically, to be associated with more complications, and be an inadequate operation for cancer. Sleeve lobectomy for bronchogenic carcinoma is an alternative to pneumonectomy. Four patients with bronchogenic carcinoma were treated by lobectomy with sleeve resection of the bronchus from 1986 to 1990. Three patients were male and one patient was female. Ages ranged from 43 years to 68 years. Symptoms were cough, sputum, blood tinged sputum, and dyspnea. Histopathologically, 3 cases were squamous cell carcinoma, 1 case was adenocarcinoma. Preoperative stage was stage I in 3 cases and stage II in 1 case. All of them were alive after operation.