Abstract
Objective: To study the efficacy of bronchoscopic therapy in patients with intraluminal typical bronchial carcinoid.
Design: Retrospective analysis of the data of patients with bronchial carcinoid, treated primarily with bronchoscopic techniques such as Nd-YAG laser in various hospitals in the Netherlands.
Subjects: Eleven patients with pulmonary complaints, ages 22 to 60 years, who were found to have intraluminal typical bronchial carcinoid.
Bronchoscopic interventions: Six of the 11 patients received Nd-YAG laser treatments, one received Nd-YAG laser plus photodynamic therapy, and the other four had mechanical tumor removal.
Results: Six patients were surgically treated after bron- choscopic therapy. The resected specimens showed no residual carcinoid. Median follow-up has been 70 months (range, 9 to 170 months). Five patients were not surgically treated after bronchoscopic therapy, Follow-up has been 27 to 246 months (median, 47 months) without signs of recurrence.
Conclusions: In 11 patients with typical, intraluminal, bronchial carcinoids, bronchoscopic treatment seemed to result in excellent local control, with surgical proof of cure in 6 of 11 patients, Bronchoscopic approach may provide a tissue-sparing alternative for bronchoplastic surgery in a subset of patients with typical intraluminal bronchial carcinoids.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 556-558 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Chest |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Feb-1995 |
Keywords
- BRONCHIAL CARCINOID
- ENDOBRONCHIAL THERAPY
- LUNG-CANCER
- TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE
- LASER PHOTORESECTION
- YAG-LASER
- TUMORS