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KMID : 0364019910240020217
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Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1991 Volume.24 No. 2 p.217 ~ p.221
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Bilateral Pulmonary Resection for Bronchiectasis by Median Sternotomy
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Abstract
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Bronchiectasis is bilateral in approximately 30% of patients. Although the presence of bilateral bronchiectasis was -frequently considered a contraindication to surgical resection due to excessive loss of functional pulmonary parenchyma, it is a corrent view that the involved broncho-pulmonary segments are functionless and risks to the as yet univolved segments i nd should be removed if the patient´s pulmonary function is tolerable.
We repo -t a case of multisegmental bilateral bronchiectasis treated by bilateral simultaneous pulmonary resection through a median sternotomy.
Five bronchiectatic segments were resected, which were right middle lobe, anterobasal segment of the right lower lobe, and lingula of the left upper lobe.
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