Concordancia entre el tipo de resección programada y la efectuada en pacientes con carcinoma pulmonar

The resections performed differed from the resections initially planned in 13% of the bronchial carcinoma operations, in most cases because the planned lobectomy had to be converted to pneumonectomy, a situation which occurred more often with central tumors and was more often due to direct invasion of anatomic structures rather than hilar spread.