Chapter 7: The role of metastasectomy for soft tissue sarcoma

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 275 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0147-0272
• DOI: 10.1016/s0147-0272(99)90020-x

✦ Synopsis

Chapter 7: The Role of Metastasectomy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma Because soft tissue sarcomas most frequently metastasize to the lungs,'-4 surgical treatment for pulmonary metastases has been carried out for many years.5-7 Occasionally these metastases occur as isolated events or in a pattern that allows complete surgical removal of all detectable disease. Little controversy exists in advocating metastasectomy for these patients.8-12 Clearly patients with disseminated disease cannot be cured with surgical