title: History of the surgical management of pulmonary metastases and development of the International Registry.
abstract: Pulmonary metastasectomy has been gradually recognized as a potentially curative treatment in properly selected cases, and a greater number of patients are now being offered salvage surgery. The results of the International Registry of Lung Metastases (IRLM) have defined the long-term survival after metastasectomy and provided a new classification system combining anatomical and biological features to assess prognosis in the various primary tumors.
authors.affiliation: Division of Thoracic Surgery, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Via Ripamonti 435, Milan, Italy 20141.
authors.forename: Ugo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Pastorino
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000266:history / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000592:standards; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D018579:Patient Selection; D011379:Prognosis; D013510:Pulmonary Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D012042:Registries; D016019:Survival Analysis; D017741:Survivors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data