[Bronchoplasty in tumor surgery (author's transl)].

A series of 80 bronchial resections and other broncho-plasties is presented; 60 operations were performed on the right side, while only 20 on the left side. The most frequent variation was the "sleeve lobectomy" (upper lobe with main bronchus). The attention is called to other possibilities so as: the reinplantation of the middle lobe after removal of the lower lobe and the intermede bronchus, the anastomosis between the left main bronchus and the upper lobe bronchus when the dividsion of the main bronchus must be removed together with the lower lobe, the repair of the continuity on the right side by means of a double anastomosis etc. Lethal postoperative complications occurred in 7 cases; 29 patients died in consequence of recidives or metastases and 44 are alive (22 more than 3 years, 8 more than 5 years). These procedures may significantly enlarge the resectability of the cancer in old patients and in those with limited respiratory reserve.