Simultaneous resection of pulmonary tumor following cardiovascular surgery

A pulmonary tumor is occasionally detected on a chest computed tomography (CT) scan before cardiovascular surgery.In this study, we examined clinical courses of patients who had undergone the simultaneous resection of a pulmonary tumor following cardiovascular surgery.From 2008 to 2013, 18 patients (13 men and 5 women) with a median age of 69.8 years underwent the wedge pulmonary resection for a lung tumor through a median thoracotomy following...