title: Surgical results of brain metastasis from lung cancer--prognostic factors.
abstract: Twenty-five patients receiving surgical treatment for brain metastasis from lung cancer were retrospectively studied to evaluate the prognostic factors for survival time. Twenty-two patients had died of respiratory distress by April, 1989. Favorable prognostic factors derived from the median survival time (MST) in these patients included; 1) resection of primary tumor (MST 10 months); 2) total or subtotal removal of metastatic tumor (MST 6.5 months); 3) adenocarcinoma (MST 13 months); 4) metachronous onset of brain metastasis (MST 12 months); 5) single metastasis (MST 8 months). These results suggest that therapy for the primary lung cancer is important before surgery for metastatic brain tumor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsuchimochi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizoguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukushima
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tomonaga
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirakusa
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed