title: Pulmonary metastases in childhood sarcoma.
abstract: A retrospective analysis of 56 patients less than 19 years old with pulmonary metastases from previously diagnosed sarcomas was performed. Thirty patients had primary osteogenic sarcoma. Eighteen of them underwent a total of 37 thoracotomies. Overall survival was 20%. Twelve patients were noted to have metastatic Wilms' tumor, and 5 of them underwent 7 thoracotomies. This group had a 25% overall survival. Six patients had pulmonary metastases from Ewing's sarcoma. Four of these required pulmonary resection. The overall survival in these patients was 50%. The remaining 8 patients had pulmonary resection for various soft tissue malignancies, with an overll survival of 50%. The results of this review indicate a role for aggressive pulmonary resection in patients in whom the primary tumor is controlled and there is no other evidence of metastatic disease. The frequency of bilaterality and multicentric implants in patients with osteogenic sarcoma and Wilms' tumor suggest the efficacy of a median sternotomy approach in these patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001859:Bone Neoplasms; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary; D009396:Wilms Tumor / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary