Synchronous pulmonary metastases from renal cell carcinoma--a whole nation study on prevalence and potential resectability.

• Main Authors: Oddsson, S J, Hardarson, S, Petursdottir, V, Jonsson, E, Sigurdsson, M I, Einarsson, G V, Pfannschmidt, J, Gudbjartsson, T
• Other Authors: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; 80 and over; Carcinoma; Renal Cell; Cohort Studies; Female; Humans; Iceland; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Kidney Neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms; Male; Middle Aged; Pneumonectomy; Prevalence; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Meier; TNM
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/300669

To access publisher's full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field. At the time of diagnosis, almost one third of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have metastasis. We studied the prevalence, survival, and potential resectability of synchrono...