Surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases: experience with 40 patients.
OBJECTIVE
Combinations of surgery and chemotherapy have a favourable impact on survival in the treatment of disseminated neoplastic disease isolated to the lung. Sample and technical factors have made the reproduction of the published results difficult.


METHODS
In this study we report experience over 10 years.


RESULTS
From 1989 to 1999 40 patients underwent metastasectomy. Thirty received chemotherapy. The median survival is 51 months, similar to other published series.


CONCLUSIONS
Survival benefit can be observed in small series of such cases.
de la Haba Rodríguez
J Rafael
JR
Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain. juanhaba@ene.es
Algar Algar
J
J
Méndez Vidal
M José
MJ
Aranda
I Barneto
IB
Alvarez Kindelan
A
A
López Pujol
J
J
Aguilar
E Aranda
EA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015996:Survival Rate