Objective: We reviewed our experience in the surgical management of 80 patients with colorectal pulmonary metastases and investigated factors affecting survival. Material and methods: From January 1980 to December 2000, 80 patients, 43 women and 37 men with median age 63 years (range 38–79 years) underwent 98 open surgical procedure (96 muscle-sparing thoracotomy, one clamshell and one median s...

Currently, the surgical method remains leading in combined treatment of pulmonary metastases. This review provides modern information about prognostic criteria for (primary metastasectomy and repeated resections chemoperfusion lung (ILuP)) isolated metastatic lesions with various primary tumors. It is concluded that knowledge influence factors on overall survival will create basis drawing up an...

OBJECTIVE To determine if earlier detection of pulmonary metastasis by routine chest radiography (CR) is associated with a prolonged survival. DESIGN A computer-assisted search of all CR reports on patients with melanoma between 1990 and 1994 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Positive or suspicious findings for pulmonary metastasis were further pursued through review of medical r...

BACKGROUND The clinical significance of operative treatment for metachronous pulmonary metastasis from esophageal carcinoma is unclear. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 23 consecutive patients who underwent operative resection for metachronous pulmonary metastasis from esophageal carcinoma from 1991 to 2008. Patient baseline characteristics, survival probability, and prognostic factors wer...

OBJECTIVE Breast cancer metastasis to the lung is common. The resection of lung metastases in patients with breast cancer has been controversial. Here, we present a very rare case of pulmonary and mediastinal lymph node metastases in a patient with breast cancer who had a disease-free interval (DFI) of more than 33 years. METHODS An involved lobectomy and systematic mediastinal lymph node dis...

To assess the efficacy of radioiodine therapy (RIT) and investigate the prognostic factors for patients with pulmonary metastasis secondary to differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) through a retrospective study. A total of 80 patients with radioactive iodine-131 (I)-avid pulmonary metastasis from DTC treated with I from 2007 to 2014 at our institution entered the study. Treatment response was ...

Arteriovenous (AV) fistulas are common in renal cell carcinoma. These are usually small and asymptomatic. Case reports have previously described symptomatic fistulas in primary renal cell tumour or, less commonly, bone metastases. The current study describes a patient with lung metastases from renal cell carcinoma who developed a symptomatic pulmonary AV fistula. The patient presented with debi...

Pulmonary metastatic tumors in two patients with locally well controlled uterine cancer were treated with bronchial arterial infusion chemotherapy. The first patient underwent a radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy for stage IIb cervical cancer. Fifteen months after the operation, pulmonary metastasis was identified. Clinical evidence of tumor was negative after bronchial arterial in...

Locally recurrent renal cell carcinoma and multiple pulmonary metastases were successfully resected in a patient 20 years after nephrectomy.

The studies described in this paper showed that the combination of i.v.-transferred lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells and i.p. injections of recombinant interleukin-2 (RIL-2) was highly effective in vivo in reducing established pulmonary metastases of natural killer cell-resistant, MCA-105 sarcoma and B16 melanoma in mice. A 3-day in vitro incubation of normal C57BL/6 splenocytes in mediu...