[Reservoir system for bronchial arterial injection against lung cancer patients in an outpatient clinic]

Abstract

We completed a reservoir system for injection to bronchial artery. A slender catheter was indwelled in bronchial artery through left subclavian artery or right femoral artery in five cases with lung cancer. Reservoir was embedded subcutaneously, and injection to bronchial artery was performed repeatedly on an outpatient basis. Used drugs were CDDP, bleomycin and adriamycin. RI angiography confirmed the accumulation of 99mTc-MAA in primary lung tumor. Satisfactory therapeutic effect can be expected by the use of reservoir system for bronchial arterial injection, and seemed to become one of the established therapies, improving quality of life with advanced lung cancer.