[Management of malignant pleural diseases].

Pleural effusions are the oldest indication of the thoracoscopic treatment. They represent the terminal state of malignancy and the aim of the treatment is palliative. The most effective is the thoracoscopic procedure in general anaesthesia with one lung ventilation and application of talc powder.

[The complications of pulmonary resection treatment of lung cancer].

This article discusses the complications of the pulmonary resection treatment in lung cancer. A significant decrease in incidence of cardiovascular and respiratory complications has already been achieved during the last decades. However, infectious complications, mainly pneumonias and postpneumonectomy empyemas still remain and belong among treacherous complications which are often associated with significant mortality.

[Tracheal stenosis and its treatment].

A group of 89 patients suffering from tracheostenosis was studied in the period from January 1990 to January 1999. Surgical procedure on trachea was performed in 63 patients with postintubation (posttracheostomic) stenosis, in 6 patients with direct tracheal trauma, in 9 with tracheoesophageal fistula, in 7 with malignant stenosis, in 3 with postinflammatory subglottic stenosis. In the treatment of tracheal stenosis a set of methods was used ranging from laser and tracheal endoproteses, through cartilage implantation and plastic reconstruction of tracheal defects to extensive segmental resections.

[Surgical complications of tracheal intubation--tracheal rupture].

Authors present case report of 47-year-old woman with a rupture of trachea in its lower part after an intubation with a double-lumen tube without any problems. Tracheal lesion was discovered at the end of operation after an extirpation of mediastinal tumor and wedge resection of lung during the examination of hermeticity of lung mechanical suture. Rupture was cured by suture resorbable monofilamental material.