Table 1.
Characteristics of the patients
| Case | Age | Gender | Primary disease | HJ | PS | Treatment site | Initial treatment | Postoperative treatment | Survival time (days) | Outcome | Cause of after death | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| before | after | before | after | ||||||||||
| 1 | 70 | male | lung cancer | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | bifurcation to TIM | none | radiotherapy | 59 | dead | cachexia |
| 2 | 57 | male | lung cancer | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | bifurcation to TIM | none | chemotherapy | 227 | alive | - |
| 3 | 50 | female | breast cancer | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | bifurcation to TIM | chemotherapy | radiotherapy | 40 | dead | RF |
| 4 | 44 | male | lung cancer | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | bifurcation to TIM | surgery, chemothrary | none | 146 | dead | RF |
| 5 | 78 | female | lung cancer | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | bifurcation to TIM | SBRT | none | 13 | dead | RF |
| 6 | 56 | male | lung cancer | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | bifurcation to TIM | chemoradiotherapy | none | 29 | dead | RF |
| 7 | 45 | female | lung cancer | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | bifurcation to TIM | chemotherapy | none | 14 | dead | cachexia |
| 8 | 74 | female | thyroid cancer | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | bifurcation to TIM | surgery | none | 25 | dead | RF |
| 9 | 54 | female | breast cancer | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | bifurcation to TIM | surgery, chemothrapy | radiotherapy | 207 | dead | RF |
| 10 | 67 | female | tracheal cancer | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | bifurcation to TIM | chemoradiotherapy | none | 745 | dead | RF |
| 11 | 55 | female | lung cancer | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | bifurcation to TIM | chemotherapy | none | 15 | dead | RF |
| 12 | 61 | male | lung cancer | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | bifurcation to LMB | chemoradiotherapy | none | 51 | dead | RF |
HJ: Hugh-Jones classification; PS: performance status; RF: respiratory failure; SBRT: stereotactic body radiotherapy; TIM: truncus intermedius; LMB: left main bronchus