Video-assisted sleeve lobectomy for mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the left lower lobar bronchus: a case report

Chest. 2002 Feb;121(2):635-6. doi: 10.1378/chest.121.2.635.

Abstract

We report what we believe to be the first case of video-assisted sleeve lobectomy in an adolescent girl who had experienced recurrent episodes of lobar pneumonia and received a diagnosis of low-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the left lower lobar bronchus.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bronchial Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
  • Pneumonectomy / methods*
  • Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / methods*