TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pneumonectomy A1 - Roberts, John R. A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Colson, Yolonda L. A2 - Jaklitsch, Michael T. A2 - Krasna, Mark J. A2 - Mentzer, Steven J. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - Adult Chest Surgery, 2e AB - As long as surgery remains the best curative treatment for lung cancer, patients will continue to require pneumonectomy to treat lung cancer and for other occasional problems.1 Arguably, no other surgery carries as high a risk for perioperative mortality as pneumonectomy. Operative mortality from pneumonectomy has been reported to be between 5% and 20%.2–8 In a meta-analysis of 27 studies, 90-day mortality for right pneumonectomy was 20% and left pneumonectomy was 9%, for an overall mortality of 11%.9 For this reason, appropriate selection, operative technique, and postoperative management of patients who potentially may undergo pneumonectomy is crucial. We say potentially because patients scheduled for pneumonectomy ultimately may undergo a sleeve resection or exploration without resection depending on the findings at surgery. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105842265 ER -