Medicine (Baltimore)
September 2017
Objective: Placental transmogrification of the lung (PTL) is rare cystic lesion. Thus, we summarized the characteristics of PTL to explore the strategy of diagnosis and treatment.
Methods: Two patients pathologically confirmed PTL were treated in our hospital.
Chin Med Sci J
December 2011
Objective: To evaluate the use of titanium mesh reconstruction after sternal tumor resection.
Methods: From January 2007 to January 2011, 14 patients with sternal tumors were admitted into Peking Union Medical Hospital. The clinical characteristics, surgical resection, and technique of reconstruction were reviewed.
Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi
December 2003
Objective: To investigate the changes and influence factors for early postoperative pulmonary function of thoracotomy.
Methods: Pre- and early postoperative pulmonary function was detected in 64 consecutive cases with optimal thoracotomy. Pain assessment was conducted before pulmonary function test, and the chief complaints of patients were recorded after the procedure.
Objective: To study the effects of general anesthesia combined with epidural anesthesia (GEA) and pure general anesthesia (GA) on the surgical stress response and cytokines in pulmonary surgery.
Methods: Twenty patients submitted to elective pulmonary surgery were randomly divided into 2 groups of 10 patients: GEA group receiving general anesthesia combined with thoracic epidural analgesia and GA group receiving only general anesthesia. Blood samples were taken before induction, at incision, 2 h, 4 h, 6 h following the incision, and in the 1st and 3rd postoperative day.