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Intensified therapy for infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia : Results from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Consortium

✍ Scribed by Tomasz Szczepański; Marja J. Pongers-Willemse; Karel Hählen; Jacques J. M. van Dongen

Book ID
101230516
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
113 KB
Volume
83
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

Resection of Hepatic and Pulmonary Metastases in Patients with Colorectal Carcinoma

W e read with interest the article by Ambiru et al. 1 concerning the resection of colorectal hepatic and pulmonary metastases. In a population of 156 patients with resected hepatic metastases from colorectal carcinoma, they identified 6 in whom pulmonary metastasectomy was performed. They concluded that hepatic and pulmonary metastasectomy can result in long term survival for selected patients.

Recently, we analyzed data on 239 patients who underwent colorectal pulmonary metastasectomy at the thoracic surgery departments of two French institutions during the period 1970 -1995. Among these patients, 43 (18%) underwent hepatic resection for

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