Lung cancer invading the superior vena cava - surgical treatment. A short and up-to-date review

• Main Authors: Eleftherios Nikolaidis (Author), Nikolaos Bolanos (Author), Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos (Author), Vasileios Leivaditis (Author), Konstantinos Grapatsas (Author), Efstratios Koletsis (Author), Athanasios Papatriantafyllou (Author), Ioannis Panagiotopoulos (Author), Francesk Mulita (Author), Nikolaos Baltayiannis (Author), Manfred Dahm (Author), Antonios Chatzimichalis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Termedia Publishing House, 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of lung cancer, occurring in approximately 5-10% of cases. There are difficulties in the process of surgical treatment of SVC infilt...