Acute Arterial ischimia by tumoral embolism after lung resection: report of two cases and literature review

From January 1984 to December 1999 we operate in our institution, 465 patients affected by lung cancer. In the early post-operative period we observe two arterial peripheral embolic events. Treatment consist in surgical embolectomy by fogarthy sond under femoral way. We don't observe post-operative complications or any functional sequelae. For the two patients tumoral character of the embalm was confirmed this work confirm the need of pre-operative precautions to avoid this complication they way be severe when indiagnosed or treated latterly