Late reintervention with lung resection following earlier lung resection

14 reoperations with lung resection for a recurrent tumour, metastasis or second malignant disease were performed in patients with lung resection for bronchial carcinoma (6 patients), solitary metastasis of hypernephroma (3 patients), and lung resection for tuberculosis (5 patients). The following patients were operated on the second time, viz. for cancer (2 patients), tuberculoma (1 patient), chondroma (1 patient), and haemangiopericytoma in the remaining lung after pneumonectomy (1 patient). There was a simultaneous cancer in 2 patients reoperated for malignant diseases. 2 patients died 12 or 21 months after resection, all the others are still alive 2 to 6 years after the second operation.