[Surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases. Apropos of 26 cases].

Twenty-six patients with known primary tumors were treated surgically for pulmonary metastases between 1951 and 1979. The metastases were diagnosed more often (58% of cases) by routine radiological examinations than because of thoracic symptoms. While diagnosis of the primary tumor and the metastases was simultaneous in three cases, the average lapse of time between the two diagnoses was 5 years and 1 month in the other cases.

[Metastatic pulmonary echinococcosis secondary to a primary cardiac lesion situated in the interventricular septum. One case successfully treated surgically (author's transl)].

The authors report a case of metastatic pulmonary echinococcosis secondary to a primary cardiac lesion. The diagnosis was made on the basis of round pulmonary lesions developing during an episode of cardiac diseases which had been labelled as idiopathic acute pericarditis. The septal site then suspected on the basis of minor conduction disturbances was confirmed by angiography and could be excised under extracorporeal circulation.

[Comparative study of mechanical and manual suture of bronchial stumps in pneumonectomy (author's transl)].

The incidence and time of onset of bronchial fistulae were retrospectively studied in 306 patients who underwent pneumonectomy at the Saint-Joseph Hospital, Paris, between 1975 and 1979. The bronchial suture was performed mechanically in 145 cases and manually in 161 cases. Patients in both groups were of comparable age, lung disease, side operated upon, nature of the bronchial division, post-operative course and surgeon's ability.