Surgical Intervention for Pulmonary Metastases
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Surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases.
Isolated pulmonary metastases from many primary sources were treated by surgery in 37 patients. Twenty-one per cent of those with carcinomas and 16% of those with sarcomas survived for five years. Twenty-four patients are now dead, 21 from generalized tumour dissemination. Occasional long-term survivals were obtained which, when related to the low mortality and morbidity attending thoracotomy, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1866-0452
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2012.0645