Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Artificial airway decision for cancer patient

3rd March 2011

Lung cancer patient received the world's first case of an artificial airway decision after surgeons in hospital Paris, tube bronchial replacement.

Received at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny, meant they had to remove a patient 78-year-old lung, a procedure which has a very high mortality.

Breast surgeon Emmanuel Martinod, who performed the surgery in October 2009, said that the artificial Bronchus given surgical team better margins of safety as they removed the cancer had invaded human respiratory tract and the lungs.

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