[Specifics of surgical treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer associated with tuberculosis].

Small cell lung cancer incidence associated with tuberculosis is 4.5-7 times that in a relevant population of tumor patients. Tuberculosis which masks tumor and metastatic spread to the mediastinal lymph nodes taxes the patient's potential.

[A new technique of closing bronchial stump in extended or combined pneumonectomy].

Extended or combined pneumonectomies were performed in 56 cases of advanced complicated non-small cell lung cancer. Bronchial stump was closed by a modification of Overholt's technique using a vascularised tissue flap. Postoperative complication rate was 66%, mortality--23% and bronchial fistula--1.