title: Surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases: experience with 40 patients.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain. juanhaba@ene.es
authors.forename: J Rafael
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: de la Haba Rodríguez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Algar Algar
authors.forename: M José
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Méndez Vidal
authors.forename: I Barneto
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Aranda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alvarez Kindelan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: López Pujol
authors.forename: E Aranda
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Aguilar
mesh_terms: 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