title: [Growth rate of pulmonary metastases (author's transl)].
abstract: The growth of 148 untreated metastases to the lung was determined in 47 patients. Pulmonary metastases of squamous-cell carcinomas, sarcomas and malignant melanomas exhibited exponential growth, the doubling times were distributed log-normally, the geometric mean amounted to six weeks. The growth rate of adenocarcinomas decreased with increasing tumor size approximately in accordance with a Gompertzian function.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Die Wachstumsgeschwindigkeit von Lungenmetastasen.