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Bitish Thoracic Society, “Guidelines on the Selection of Patients with Lung Cancer for Surgery,” Thorax, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2001, pp. 89-108. doi:10.1136/thorax.56.2.89

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• TITLE: Pulmonary Resection for Metachronous Lung Cancer Following Contralateral Pneumonectomy

  AUTHORS: Thomas Tsitsias, Prity Gupta, Kelvin W. Lau, Nicholas Harvey, Sridhar Rathinam

  KEYWORDS: Metachronous Lung Cancer; Intermittent Apnea; Limited Resection

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery, Vol.3 No.1, March 29, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Patients who undergo pneumonectomy for lung cancer are at risk of recurrent disease and metachronous tumours in the remaining lung. Establishing a diagnosis can be difficult as biopsy may induce a pneumothorax, whilst resection is limited by remaining lung function. However, pneumonectomy should not be a contraindication to further lung resection. We report two cases of lung cancer resection in the residual lung 6 and 11 years following pneumonectomy respectively. A limited resection can be safely performed for a new pulmonary parenchymal lesion on a background of a previous pneumonectomy.