[Analysis of surgery effect on 198 cases of pulmonary echinococcosis].

Objective: To summarize the experience in the surgical treatment of pulmonary echinococcosis, and evaluate the operative approach to avoid recurrence.

Methods: A retrospective study was carried out to analyze the clinical data of 198 cases with pulmonary echinococcosis from January 2000 to October 2010 in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, involving the general conditions, clinical course, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, therapeutic approaches and outcomes.

Results: There were 114 male and 84 female patients aged from 2 to 68 years with a mean of 25.

[Tracheo-carinal reconstruction, bronchoplasty and vascular reconstruction in the treatment of lung cancer].

Background: Reconstruction of carina, bronchoplasty and arterioplasty are widely used to extend the indication of lung cancer operation. Because these procedures preserve as many healthy lung tissues as possible, their therapeutic effect is better than pneumonectomy in many central lung cancer cases with poor cardiopulmonary function. The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility and indication of extended resection in selected patients with centrally located lung cancer.

[Clinical analysis of 99 young patients with lung cancer in different nationalities in Xinjiang].

Background: To study clinicopathological characteristics and national distribution of lung cancer in patients who were younger than 40 years of age in Xinjiang.

Methods: The records of 99 patients who were younger than 40 years of age with lung cancer who were diagnosed in our hospital from September, 1989 to July, 2001 were reviewed. Analyses as to gender, nationalities, misdiagnosis and pathological types were performed.