Reconstruction of the Chest Wall with a Silastic Sheet in Advanced Lung Cancer Involving the Chest Wall.

Bilobectomy with superior pulmonary vein reconstruction with a greater saphenous vein autograft to avoid pneumonectomy

“…2,3 These cases, however, concerned angioplasty for reconstruction of the pulmonary artery. Only Narita and associates 4 reported reconstruction of the pulmonary vein. Pulmonary congestion caused by venous stenosis or thrombosis could be lethal.…”