Is Acrylate Co-monomer (Glubran-2) Useful in the Prevention of Prolonged Air Leaks After Pulmonary Lobectomy?

Many synthetic materials are being used in order to reduce the frequency of prolonged air leak (PAL) in thoracic surgical practice. This study presents our experience with the topical application of acrylate co-monomer (Glubran-2) as a synthetic tissue adhesive in an attempt to decrease troublesome postoperative air leaks in patients undergoing resection for non-small cell lung carcinoma. Of the 112 patients who had undergone resection for lung carcinoma, 69 patients having lobectomy or bilobectomy were included in this study.

Comparison of clinical and pathological tumor, node and metastasis staging of lung cancer: 15-year experience with 530 patients.

Aim: The prognosis of patients with lung cancer depends on early diagnosis and accurate staging. The present staging system for lung cancer is tumor (T), node (N), and metastasis (M) staging (TNM). We compared the accuracy of preoperative (clinical) and postoperative (pathological) TNM staging of lung cancer in this study and emphasized the preoperative mediastinoscopy is useful in selected patients.

Primary intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts: analysis of 14 patients with a rare clinical entity.

Primary hydatid cysts very rarely form in intrathoracic yet extrapulmonary sites. Accurate preoperative diagnosis in such cases is difficult, and corrective surgical procedures necessarily differ from those that are used to treat the far more typical pulmonary or hepatic hydatid cysts. We retrospectively evaluated the diagnostic and operative characteristics of intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts, and we examined the outcome of aggressive surgical interventions that went beyond conventional parenchymal-sparing procedures.

Seven years experience of bronchogenic cysts.

Objective: To reveal the clinical, radiological, and surgical results of bronchogenic cysts.

Methods: Patients that underwent surgical procedure between January 2000 and June 2007, at Izmir Dr. Suat Seren Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey with a radiological diagnosis of bronchogenic cyst were assessed retrospectively.

Fibrin glue administration to support bronchial stump line.

Bronchopleural fistula is an important cause of mortality and morbidity after pulmonary resection. The use of fibrin glue to reduce the tension and number of sutures in the bronchial stump was assessed in this prospective study of 20 patients between June 2002 and May 2003. They all had a high risk of bronchopleural fistula development because of bronchiectasis, tuberculosis, lung abscess, diabetes mellitus, preoperative neoadjuvant radiotherapy, or residual tumor at the surgical margin.