Publications by authors named "Jean-Paul Gamondes"
Most common causes of intrathoracic empyema include pulmonary infections and postoperative bronchopleural fistulas complicating a lung surgical resection, mainly pneumonectomy, as a result of the failure of the bronchial stump to heal. A 22-year-old Serbian patient presented with chronic posttraumatic empyema. Two years before during a war, he experienced chest injury due to a firearm wound, with massive intrathoracic bleeding and need for emergency left pneumonectomy.
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- The study analyzed the outcomes of 228 patients who underwent pneumonectomy following induction chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer, noting concerns over high mortality rates associated with this procedure.
- Postoperative morbidity was reported at 37%, with significant risks including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and extended surgical factors, while 30-day mortality was 5.3% and 90-day mortality was 9.2%.
- Overall survival rates demonstrated 68% at 1 year, 39% at 3 years, and 32% at 5 years, concluding that induction chemotherapy did not negatively impact outcomes and pneumonectomy can be deemed reasonable for experienced surgeons.
Objective: Pulmonary resection in metastatic pediatric solid tumors is an accepted method of treatment. The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical course, outcome and prognostic factors after surgery.
Methods: A retrospective analysis from 1985 to 2006 of 52 patients less than 17 years old at the time of tumor diagnosis and submitted to thoracotomy for pulmonary metastatic disease was performed.
Lung herniation is a rare event defined by protrusion of the lung through an abnormal weakness in the thoracic wall. We report a case of spontaneous intercostal pulmonary herniation, which occurred as a result of vigorous coughing. We repaired the herniation by approximating the ribs with heavy stitches.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA series of 90 thymic epithelial tumors were reviewed and classified by histopathologic characteristics into the three major categories (A, B, and C) recognized by the WHO schema. Each tumor type was correlated with patient characteristics and clinical data (age, sex, presence of myasthenia gravis, tumor size and invasiveness, and completeness of resection), and with outcome (survival, recurrence, and metastasis). All tumors were categorized by the WHO schema.
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