[Surgery for esophageal cancer: 10 years experience].

Unlabelled: Objective of work was to evaluate efficacy of surgery for esophageal cancer with one-step gastric pipe reconstruction, to analyze postoperative complications, causes of deaths and patient's life expectancy. In 1992-2002 in Clinic of Surgery Vilnius University Institute of Oncology 213 patients underwent surgery for esophageal cancer; 177 patients (83.0%) were applied transthoracic approach, 34 patients (15.

[Postoperative adjuvant therapy in combined lung cancer treatment].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was: to evaluate efficacy of postoperative chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy in patients with NSCLC (N2) disease and to point out time to tumor progression and reccurence, as well as to patients survival. Study was performed as a part of International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Treatment (IALT) protocol. In 1999-2000, 110 patients patients with NSCLC with metastases to N1 and N2 regions entered the trial.

[Possibilities of diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma].

Unlabelled: Objective of our work was to evaluate: incidence, ethiology, diagnostic and treatment methods of malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Material And Methods: During period 1992-2001 125 cases of pleural mesothelioma were diagnosed in Lithuania. Conventional X-rays and ultrasound were used in 125 cases (100%), chest CT scans in 57 (45.

[Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in diagnosis and treatment of pleuritis].

Objective: To evaluate possibilites of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in diagnosis and treatment of pleuritis. 1997-2002 in Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology of Vilnius University Institute of Oncology 206 patients underwent videothoracoscopic procedures (146 (70.8%) of them for pleuritis).