Eichenhorn M S, Kvale P A, Miks V M, Seydel H G, Horowitz B, Radke J R
Chest. 1986 Jun;89(6):782-5. doi: 10.1378/chest.89.6.782.
Patients presenting with inoperable non-small cell carcinoma of the lung and major symptomatic bronchial obstruction were treated initially with debulking of the airways by YAG laser, followed by conventional external-beam radiotherapy. The former method was used to minimize postobstructive pneumonitis or respiratory failure (or both) that often complicates major brochial obstruction and also to lessen the burden of tumor to be treated by radiotherapy. The preliminary results of 19 patients treated in this manner are reported, emphasizing the impact of this combined method on morbidity and mortality.
患有无法手术的非小细胞肺癌且有严重症状性支气管阻塞的患者，最初接受YAG激光减容气道治疗，随后进行常规外照射放疗。前一种方法用于尽量减少常使严重支气管阻塞复杂化的阻塞后肺炎或呼吸衰竭（或两者），并减轻放疗所要治疗的肿瘤负担。报告了19例采用这种方法治疗的初步结果，重点强调了这种联合方法对发病率和死亡率的影响。
