Indications and surgical outcome following pulmonary metastasectomy: a nationwide study.

• Published in: The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
• Main Authors: Vidarsdottir, Halla, Moller, Pall H, Jonasson, Jon G, Pfannschmidt, Joachim, Gudbjartsson, Tomas
• Other Authors: Department of Surgery, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Thieme 2013
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; 80 and over; Carcinoma; Renal Cell; Chi-Square Distribution; Child; Preschool; Colorectal Neoplasms; Disease-Free Survival; Female; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Iceland; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Kidney Neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms; Male; Metastasectomy; Middle Aged; Pneumonectomy; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Sarcoma; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Young Adult; Meier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/302011; https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0031-1293602

The aim of this retrospective nationwide study was to investigate indications and surgical outcome after pulmonary metastasectomy (PM) in a well-defined cohort of patients and to calculate the proportion of cancer patients who were operated on. Between 1984 and 2008, 81 patients (age 54.8 years, 50....