Prolonged survival with unresected pulmonary metastases.
The cases of 3 selected patients who had prolonged survival with pulmonary metastases that doubled in size yearly are reported. The experience with these patients and another, whose disease rapidly progressed after resection of pulmonary metastases, admonishes that the selection criteria for resection of pulmonary metastases require further refinement.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged