[The value of prognostic factors in patients who underwent a resection of pulmonary metastases].
155 patients were operated on pulmonary metastases in Jena during the period from 1.1.1984 to the 31.12.1994. The findings of 151 patients were analysed. 128 patients suffered from a carcinoma, 15 from a sarcoma, 6 from a malignant melanoma and 2 from a Wilms-tumor. The prognostic factors discussed in the international publications at present were investigated in those patients. Significant differences in the long-term survival were found for the following features: a possible radical resection, the tumor entity, the site, the histology and the grading of the primary tumor, the size and the site of the metastases and the resection of recurrent metastases. Tendencies are described for the type of dissemination and the staging of the primary tumor, the site of the pulmonary metastases in the lung lobes, solitary extrapulmonary metastases and more than 6 lung metastases. In addition patients who showed metastases of a renal cell carcinoma are considered separately.
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Abteilung für Thorax- und Gefässchirurgie, Klinikum der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
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D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D017741:Survivors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data