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

Eleftherios Nikolaidis; Nikolaos Bolanos; Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos; Vasileios Leivaditis; Konstantinos Grapatsas; Efstratios Koletsis; Athanasios Papatriantafyllou; Ioannis Panagiotopoulos; Francesk Mulita; Nikolaos Baltayiannis; Manfred Dahm; Antonios Chatzimichalis

doi:10.5114/kitp.2023.129546

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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Review paper

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

Eleftherios Nikolaidis

¹

,

Nikolaos Bolanos

¹

,

Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos

¹

,

Vasileios Leivaditis

²

,

Konstantinos Grapatsas

³

,

Efstratios Koletsis

⁴

,

Athanasios Papatriantafyllou

²

,

Ioannis Panagiotopoulos

⁴

,

Francesk Mulita

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,

Nikolaos Baltayiannis

¹

,

Manfred Dahm

²

,

Antonios Chatzimichalis

¹

Department of Thoracic Surgery, “Metaxa” Cancer Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfal-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, University Medicine Essen – Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2023; 20 (2): 105-110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2023.129546

Online publish date: 2023/07/26

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Nikolaidis E, Bolanos N, Anagnostopoulos D, et al. Lung cancer invading the superior vena cava – surgical
treatment. A short and up-to-date review. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2023;20(2):105-110. doi:10.5114/kitp.2023.129546.

APA

Nikolaidis, E., Bolanos, N., Anagnostopoulos, D., Leivaditis, V., Grapatsas, K.,  & Koletsis, E. et al. (2023). Lung cancer invading the superior vena cava – surgical
treatment. A short and up-to-date review. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 20(2), 105-110. https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2023.129546

Chicago

Nikolaidis, Eleftherios, Nikolaos Bolanos, Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos, Vasileios Leivaditis, Konstantinos Grapatsas, Efstratios Koletsis,  and Athanasios Papatriantafyllou et al. 2023. "Lung cancer invading the superior vena cava – surgical
treatment. A short and up-to-date review". Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 20 (2): 105-110. doi:10.5114/kitp.2023.129546.

Harvard

Nikolaidis, E., Bolanos, N., Anagnostopoulos, D., Leivaditis, V., Grapatsas, K., Koletsis, E., Papatriantafyllou, A., Panagiotopoulos, I., Mulita, F., Baltayiannis, N., Dahm, M.,  and Chatzimichalis, A. (2023). Lung cancer invading the superior vena cava – surgical
treatment. A short and up-to-date review. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 20(2), pp.105-110. https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2023.129546

MLA

Nikolaidis, Eleftherios et al. "Lung cancer invading the superior vena cava – surgical
treatment. A short and up-to-date review." Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, vol. 20, no. 2, 2023, pp. 105-110. doi:10.5114/kitp.2023.129546.

Vancouver

Nikolaidis E, Bolanos N, Anagnostopoulos D, Leivaditis V, Grapatsas K, Koletsis E et al. Lung cancer invading the superior vena cava – surgical
treatment. A short and up-to-date review. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2023;20(2):105-110. doi:10.5114/kitp.2023.129546.

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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 infiltrated by lung tumors but the contribution of technological evolution and innovation is promising. At the same time, the amelioration of survival rates of patients subjected to surgical treatment is equally promising. The reported outcomes of surgical treatment for SVC invasion due to lung tumors vary depending on the extent of the tumor and the patient’s overall health status. However, studies clearly suggest that surgical treatment can improve survival and quality of life in selected patients. The literature review showed that the surgical approach to lung cancer invading the SVC constitutes the most indispensable treatment which helps to achieve the long-term survival of patients.

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

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