Surgical treatment of bronchial carcinoid tumours. Radical surgery-prognosis.

111 patients (59 male and 52 female) operated on for bronchial carcinoid are reviewed. Their average age was 48 years. 21 bronchoplastic procedures and 16 wedge-resections were performed. All of these patients are alive and no recurrences have been observed. In our experience the usual oncological criteria fail to give unanimous information for prognosis. Conservative resections such as bronchoplastic procedures and wedge- or segmental resections are to be encouraged under strict conditions because of excellent results. The 5-year survival of 52 resected patients amounted to 94.2%.