Annual Congress Vienna 2003

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Surgical decision making in marginal situations

Major Symposium
Chairs: P. E. Van Schil (Edegem, Belgium), M. Polkey (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: This symposium will provide algorhythms, which help surgical decision making in marginal patients who are potentially operable. As such, patients with cardiopulmonary comorbidity, marginally respectable lung cancer and older patients are mainly defined. The speakers will provide decisional algorhythms based on recent advances in pulmonology, physiology and surgery.

When do cardiac or pulmonary comorbidities preclude major lung resection? E. Quoix (Strasbourg, France)
Chronic infectious and inflammatory disorders - when to operate? G. Massard (Strasbourg, France)