PURPOSE We aimed to compare disease-free survival after pulmonary metastasectomy to that after hepatic metastasectomy, and to identify prognostic factors after pulmonary metastasectomy. RESULTS Between 2005 and 2015, 129 patients underwent resection of isolated metachronous lung metastases from colorectal cancer. Three-year DFS after pulmonary metastasectomy was similar to that after hepatic ...

Chondrosarcomas are the most frequently occurring primary malignant chest wall tumors. Furthermore, the lungs serve as the most frequent sites for metastases. Pulmonary metastases from sarcomas usually appear as round nodules of varying sizes on roentgenograms. Here, we report an unusual clinical and radiographic presentation of pulmonary metastasis from a costal chondrosarcoma. Bilateral pulmo...

99mTc-Depreotide has been used on single pulmonary nodules to identify somatostatin receptor-positive lung cancer. We report that pulmonary metastases of a 78-y-old man with postradical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma were detected by (99m)Tc-depreotide chest SPECT. Thus, (99m)Tc-depreotide chest SPECT can be used to diagnose secondary lung cancer, such as pulmonary metastases from renal c...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate the prognostic factors of pulmonary metastases, focusing on the time of detection of pulmonary metastases related to adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS Between June 2003 and December 2010, 84 patients underwent pulmonary metastasectomy for pulmonary metastasis (PM) from CRC. The clinicopathological data of...

Chondrosarcomas are the most frequently occurring primary malignant chest wall tumors. Furthermore, the lungs serve as the most frequent sites for metastases. Pulmonary metastases from sarcomas usually appear as round nodules of varying sizes on roentgenograms. Here, we report an unusual clinical and radiographic presentation of pulmonary metastasis from a costal chondrosarcoma. Bilateral pulmo...

Introduction: Lung metastases are the second leading cause of lung resection, constituting 30-40% of all surgeries performed in the field of Thoracic Surgery. Resection of pulmonary metastases is an open issue that generates various controversies. Depending on the functional respiratory capacity of the pulmonary metastatic patient, may come to consider multiple surgeries in the same patient, as...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to evaluate outcomes following the surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases in patients with different types of epithelial cancers, as well as to identify prognostic factors after metastasectomy. MATERIAL/METHODS We retrospectively reviewed data for 61 patients who underwent 76 curative resections of pulmonary metastases from epithelial tumours during 1...

PURPOSE Surgical resection of pulmonary metastases is now a clinically accepted cancer therapy but its success depends on the accurate localization and removal of all tumor foci. To enhance the detection of pulmonary metastases during surgery, we developed an i.v. administered optical probe that uses a monoclonal antibody, Herceptin (trastuzumab), conjugated to a fluorophore, rhodamine green (R...