title: [Surgery of lung metastasis: results of a hospital survey in the Autonomous Community of Madrid. Working Group on Surgery of Lung Metastasis (GT-CMP)].
abstract: The Task Force on Pulmonary Metastasis Surgery of the Oncology Department of the Madrid Pneumology and Chest Surgery Society designed a questionnaire to determine guidelines for surgery to resect lung metastases in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, an area with over four million inhabitants. The questionnaire was divided into five sections: indications, diagnostic procedures, extension studies, disciplinary foci and surgical techniques. Ten of the hospitals surveyed answered the questionnaire. We found that disagreement is high regarding patient screening, and that there are differences regarding some preoperative procedures and extension studies, as well as in therapeutic approach. Eighty percent of the respondents were not in favor of using video assisted thoracoscopy as a therapeutic technique, and disagreement was greater regarding approaches technique, and disagreement was greater, regarding approaches to bilateral metastases. We infer that between 100 and 120 cases are treated surgically every year. Procedures to join The International Lung Metastases Registry have started.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Trabajo sobre Cirugía en las Metástasis Pulmonares, Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Vázquez-Pelillo
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bravo Bravo
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Cirugía en las metástasis pulmonares: resultados de una encuesta hospitalaria en la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Cirugía en las Metástasis Pulmonares (GT-CMP).