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Management of multiple lung metastases

✍ Scribed by Hiroshi Takita; Francis Edgerton; Claude Merrin; Harold D. Douglass; Constantine Karakousis

Book ID
102924984
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
508 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-4790

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

During the past seven years, 78 patients with multiple lung metastases underwent lung resection. Most of the patients with bilateral lung metastases had lung resection through a median sternotomy rather than by bilateral thoracotomies. β€œLocal excision” of the lung lesions was the most frequently used technique in order to preserve as much lung tissue as possible. Sixty‐three of the 78 patients received adjuvant therapies following lung resection. Operative mortality was 3.8%. The over‐all median survival was 18.3 months. Analysis of the data showed shorter tumor doubling time to be an indicator of poor prognosis, whereas other factors such as disease‐free intervals and unilateral vs bilateral metastases did not affect the postoperative survival.

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