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Concomitant pulmonary carcinoma and abdominal aortic aneurysm: Therapeutic strategies

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Purpose

A diagnosis of concomitant pulmonary carcinoma and abdominal aortic aneurysm is rare (<1% of treated cases). However, such an association makes the therapeutic decisions critical, especially regarding the priority and timing of treatment. This article reports on our experience of 14 cases of concomitant pulmonary carcinoma and abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Methods

From April 1987 to June 2006 we observed 14 cases of concomitant pulmonary carcinoma and abdominal aortic aneurysm. In patients for whom simultaneous treatment was not indicated due to a poor general condition, priority was given to lung cancer except for cases in which the aneurysm needed an urgent approach. Patients observed after 2000 and scheduled for a two-stage treatment were treated with endovascular procedures whenever possible.

Results

Only one patient was treated by a simultaneous aneurysmectomy and a left lower lobectomy, while in the other 13 patients two-stage treatment was performed. Lung carcinoma was operated on first in 7 cases but one patient underwent an urgent aneurysmectomy after chest surgery due to a rupture of the aneurysm. Priority was given to an aneurysmectomy in 2 patients. An endovascular approach was performed in 4 patients, thus allowing a pulmonary resection during the same period of hospitalization, 2 days after 2 uneventful endovascular procedures and on the 6th and 7th postoperative days in 2 cases due to an intraoperative rupture of right iliac artery and type I postoperative endoleak, respectively.

Conclusion

An endovascular exclusion of the aneurysm may therefore be proposed in order to achieve a concomitant treatment of both diseases. Such an approach excludes complications due to a postoperative rupture of the aneurysm when a pulmonary resection would be first performed; moreover, it does not delay the performance of a pulmonary resection when treatment of the aneurysm is considered to have priority.

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    Giuseppe Borzellino, Francesco Giovinazzo, Anna Maria Minicozzi, Roberto Dusi, Leonardo Politi & Gian Franco Veraldi

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Borzellino, G., Giovinazzo, F., Minicozzi, A.M. et al. Concomitant pulmonary carcinoma and abdominal aortic aneurysm: Therapeutic strategies. Surg Today 38, 512–516 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-006-3672-0

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